Color: Bordeaux | Country: France

The Great Masters didn’t always listen. One such was Turner who frequently used paint colors that he knew would fade, one of his favorites being his brightest red Carmine. In looking at his 1935 Waves Breaking against the Wind today, none of the intensity of his red pigment remains. Sadly he died in 1851, just missing the start of new, more lightfast colors beginning in1859 with the invention of aniline color made with petrochemical byproducts which went on to revolutionize artist’s pallets around the world.

The color Bordeaux officially obtained its name in 1891 in honor of a French wine called Bordeaux, which has a very dark red color, similar to other wines produced such as cabernet and merlot. Of the primary colors (red, blue and yellow) burgundy obtained by mixing approximately three pieces of bright red, one piece of dark blue and a few drops of yellow. The result is a warm, harmonious and very rich burgundy color, one that Rulers and emperors often wore as their official shade or hue to display their status or office.

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The Archbishops’s Touraine with Duck Confit

Fish in Red Wine and Cocoa Sauce

Potato and Celery Root Pancake

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