Nicholas Roerich works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Nicholas Roerich carry the compositional weight. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. The most saturated colour, #793A31, is reserved to 2.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. Spanning 54 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. This is palette 1 of Nicholas Roerich's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.