Helene Schjerfbeck is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 7.8%, #C6C09C carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. 41 units of value spread create a palette that is varied but unified - contrast in the service of harmony. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Helene Schjerfbeck's complete body of work advances.