Raoul Dufy Palette 9

Palette Analysis

Raoul Dufy sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Raoul Dufy tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 4.0% is devoted to #6680B7, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. Spanning 50 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 9 of Raoul Dufy's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.