Laura Cumming

Laura Cumming has been the art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her book The Vanishing Velázquez is published by Scribner.

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Transformative

How Velasquez Eased My Grief

Grieving after the death of her father, a painter, the author vowed not to even look at art ever again. Then she found herself standing before ‘Las Meninas,’ and everything changed.

Laura Cumming