Fauvism & Expressionism · c. 1937
Le Cours de la Seine
Le Cours de la Seine (c. 1937) by Raoul Dufy. Its palette is led by light grey (#9ab7be, 25%) and muted lime green (#508870, 18%), with accents of cool white, pale yellow, dark muted azure teal and blue. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and cool.
Color note
Dufy let color float free of drawing, laying broad washes of color and then drawing over them in quick, separate lines.
Palette
- #9ab7be MG 213 light grey 25.0% of canvas
- #508870 MG 057 muted lime green 18.1% of canvas
- #75a392 MG 075 light aqua 16.6% of canvas
- #6f93a5 MG 081 muted azure teal 13.0% of canvas
- #e2eae7 MG 204 cool white 9.0% of canvas
- #d0d28c MG 042 pale yellow 8.1% of canvas
- #2c504e MG 084 dark muted azure teal 6.2% of canvas
- #2d5a86 MG 106 blue 3.9% of canvas
Color families
Blue 44%, Green 25%, Gray 14%, White 8%, Yellow 5%
Measurements
Composition
50% of the visual weight is in the left half, 54% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.18 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 1% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 42% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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