Raoul Dufy Palette 14

Palette Analysis

Raoul Dufy occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Mid-saturation across the board: the palette has colour character without chromatic excess. #1957B9 is not a small accent - at 26.6% it qualifies as a major presence and gives the palette its chromatic identity. 60 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 14 of Raoul Dufy's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.