Max Beckmann keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Warm and cool tones are held in careful balance - neither family dominates, creating tension and resolution simultaneously. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 3.4%, #AE833D carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. At 65 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. This is palette 2 of Max Beckmann's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.