Gustave Neymark occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The saturated accent, #DEC28C, registers at 5.9% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The full value range is 71 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. This is palette 1 of Gustave Neymark's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.