Ever wish you could travel back in time and visit the studios of some of history’s greatest artists? Well, we don’t exactly have a time machine, but we’ve got the next best thing: the palettes that were used in creating the most celebrated artistic masterpieces of the Nineteenth and Twentieth century.
In his series Das Meisterstück, German photographer Matthias Schaller has spent the last 9 years photographing over 200 palettes of over 70 of the most prominent painters. He believes his palette portraits provide a unique insight to better understanding and analyzing the creative processes of these artistic geniuses.
1. Claude Monet
![Claude Monet, Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/monet.jpg)
2. Vincent van Gogh
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/van-gogh-1-264.jpg)
3. Paul Cézanne
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cezanne-1-orsay-267.jpg)
4. Gustave Moreau
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/moreau-1-2212.jpg)
5. Henry Matisse
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/matisse-1-377.jpg)
6. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/renoir-1-333.jpg)
7. J.M.W. Turner
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/turner-2-royal-004.jpg)
8. Wassily Kandinsky
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/kandinsky-1-murnau-14-934.jpg)
9. Eugéne Delacroix
![Photo: Matthias Schaller - Color Palettes](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/delacroix-1-308.jpg)
Schalle’s portraits are currently on view from May 8 to June 7 with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in the Palladian Refectory on the Island of San Giorgio (Venice, Italy).