Laura Cumming: 4 books
Velázquez desaparecido
La obsesión de un librero con una obra de arte perdida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Velázquez desaparecido, una emocionante indagación en el complejo significado de la autenticidad, rastrea la inquebrantable determinación que impulsa a artistas y coleccionistas, y viaja de la extravagante corte española de la década de 1700 a las despiadadas casas de subastas de Londres y Nueva...
Five Days Gone
The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art...
by Laura Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention...
The Vanishing Velázquez
A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016
“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century...