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Payne’s Gray

Payne’s Gray 10KT003

Payne’s Gray - 10KT003

Photo: Privathaus, ©ktCOLOR. Text: Katrin Trautwein, ©ktCOLOR 2025.

English painter William Payne (1760–1830) was looking for a colorful gray which he intended to use as background for his landscapes. English paint producer Windsor & Newton, using a formulation based on the pigments Prussian blue, red madder lake and ochre, introduced Payne’s gray to the market with immediate success. It softly embeds surrounding colors, allowing any light shades, bright yellows, warm reds, or woods such as oak and ash to look bright and beautiful against its muted background. This versatile color was also used in Eileen Gray's house by the sea E.1027. In this masterpiece, designed to follow the path of the sun, Paynes Gray was applied to surfaces in the shadows to make them recede and to create an atmosphere of calm and seclusion.
What Sets ktCOLOR's Blues Apart from All the Others

The ktCOLOR blue shades of color are made from natural and rare mineral pigments in our artisan paint workshop in Switzerland. They have a distinctive color depth, reminiscent of the beautiful blue hues found in the sky, in lakes and the ocean. Choose ktCOLOR blue paint colors for sustainability and for aesthetically pleasing surfaces in your projects. You will be delighted to see how they reflect the beauty of nature in your spaces.

A dusky blue first used by painter William Payne.

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