Bonhams - still-life attributed to Claesz takes top spot
Golden Age Dutch art topped the bill at Bonhams in the December 5 sale via a fresh-to-market still-life attributed to the 17th century painter Pieter Claesz (1597-1660), which sold for over four times the estimate at £130,000.
Working in the mercantile city of Haarlem, Claesz was a pioneer of the so-called monochrome ‘break…