Rediscovered: a first edition of Galileo’s debut book, Top picks from Contemporary Online, Summer exhibitions, Alphonse Mucha, Gold-ground paintings, Works on paper, and more͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌

|  | 05‌ Jul‌ 2025
### This week’s stories
### Rediscovered — a 420-year-old first edition of Galileo’s debut book, inspired by a supernova
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### From Baldessari’s first print to a Warhol cookbook: highlights of contemporary art offered online
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### Alphonse Mucha — how 4,000 works by the artist found a palatial new home in Prague
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### Works on paper coming to New York — by Elaine de Kooning, Whitten, Condo and many more
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### From Cezanne in Provence to Dumas in Athens: the summer shows to see in southern Europe
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### Midas touch: the masters of gold-ground painting who helped shape Renaissance art
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### Editor’s picks
The 2018 painting Abandoned finds an unlikely beauty in a neglected corner of the urban landscape. Executed in oil on aluminium by the Canadian artist Kim Dorland, the work depicts a boarded-up house overlooking a scruffy lawn and a cracked pathway; but the richness of the paintwork, with a palette enlivened by strokes of vivid pink, gives it a sense of bruised grandeur Estimate: $5,000-7,000 until 18‌ July‌, Online
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Allan D’Arcangelo once said that his ‘most profound experiences of landscape were looking through the windshield’. Consequently, the images for which the artist is best known, such as his 1969 print June Moon 1963, feature various aspects of the American highway. In this set of four pictures, a moon rising on the horizon turns out to be a glowing petrol-station sign Estimate: $800-1,200 until 16‌ July‌, Online
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Cindy Sherman’s Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson), from 1990, consists of a 24-piece dinner service and a 21-piece tea set adorned with pictures of the artist in the guise of Louis XV’s famous mistress. They were made at the Ancienne Manufacture Royale in Limoges, a centre of French porcelain production that was fervently supported by Madame de Pompadour in her lifetime Estimate: $3,000-5,000 until 17‌ July‌, Online
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The mind-bending images we associate with M.C. Escher — of impossible spaces and dizzying perspectives — seem to have their roots in his topographical studies. His 1931 print Tropea, Calabria is a true depiction of the Italian town, where the buildings appear to grow out of the rock face; but the angle from which we view it has been artfully chosen to heighten the vertiginous drama of the scene Estimate: $12,000-18,000 8-22‌ July‌, Online
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