acquired increasing elegance, broadness and nonchalance as the years passed. One of his paintings, Still Life With a Skull and a Writing Quill, held a lot of meaning while he was painting it. In this painting, for example, besides using brown and green, he only used a dash of blue for the ribbon of the watch. He needed no more colour than that to make it look true to life. Nevertheless, the objects in his still lifes rarely overlap. For Pieter Claesz, the principal aim was to render the materials…
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