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