most artists would paint themselves palette in hand for a self-portrait. But why preserve an artist's palette? Well, the daubs of raw pigment or the mixes left in position can be an intriguing ...

These large-format photographs of painters’ palettes are undeniably linked to the art they produced. Francis Bacon’s palette is gloomy and elemental much like his own raw imagery, Van Gogh’s ...

While not all artists have specific periods signifying ... For the most part, their palettes remained natural and dark from 1895 to 1905.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has just added a new Ancient Egyptian treasure to its collection: a 3,400-year-old painter’s palette carved from a single piece of ivory.