The Vanishing Man
Laura Cumming (Chatto & Windus)
In 1845, a bookseller attending a country house auction bought a dirt-blackened portrait and, convinced that it was a long-lost Velazquez, set out to discover its strange history – a quest that led him from fame to ruin and exile.
Fusing detection and biography, this is a passionate homage to the Spanish master and an investigation into how great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania.
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