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The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
$20.00 AUD
Category: Art
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. Fusing detec ...Show more
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
$30.00 AUD
Category: Art
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. "The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velazquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as readers will be spellbound by this book." (Colm Toibin). In 1 ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Thunderclap - A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap--the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with a P ...Show more
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