Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1910

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973

Still in copyright: the image isn't shown, only the colors measured from it.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) by Pablo Picasso. Its palette is led by stone (#6a665c, 25%) and graphite (#42403d, 22%), with accents of bone. Overall the canvas is light, muted and warm.

Color note

Picasso's early periods are named after colors: the Blue Period (1901–04), which followed a close friend's suicide, and the warmer Rose Period (1904–06). In Analytic Cubism (1909–12) he and Braque cut color back to near-monochrome browns and greys to concentrate on form.

Palette

#6a665c MG 175 stone 24.5% of canvas
#42403d MG 218 graphite 22.2% of canvas
#9e9887 MG 173 putty 21.0% of canvas
#827e6f MG 174 warm grey 18.6% of canvas
#cac6b5 MG 171 bone 13.7% of canvas

Color families

Brown 62%, Gray 35%, White 2%, Black 1%, Yellow 0%

Measurements

Lightness: 0.57
Contrast: 0.46
Vividness: 0.020
Warmth: +1.00
Complexity: 229 cells
Hue range: 0.23
Focus: 0.00

Composition

50% of the visual weight is in the right half, 51% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.63 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 3% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 36% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.

Details

Date: 1910
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 100 × 72 cm
Made in: Spain
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago