Values in Valentin Serov rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. Valentin Serov gives 28.3% of the composition to a single #1E191A - a decisive chromatic anchor. The most saturated colour, #936241, is reserved to 6.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 62 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 11 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Valentin Serov's complete body of work advances.