Umberto Boccioni keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Umberto Boccioni keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #7A4532, is reserved to 7.6% 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. Taken together, these qualities constitute Umberto Boccioni's chromatic voice - distinctive enough to be read across an entire body of work.