The value structure of Kurt Schwitters is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. Mid-saturation across the board: the palette has colour character without chromatic excess. #C38124 is not a small accent - at 21.1% it qualifies as a major presence and gives the palette its chromatic identity. A value spread of 61 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Together these qualities point to the open-air Impressionist method: recording light rather than local colour. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Kurt Schwitters's complete body of work advances.