EditorialOriginal Harry Potter watercolour illustration introducing boy wizard to the world on first book cover sets auction record with $600,000 pre-sale estimate
EditorialFrom left, the actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Conn., on Nov. 8, 2002. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialChintz and tasseled curtains that belonged to the late designer Mario Buatta, at Sotheby’s in New York, Jan. 18, 2020. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialAn earpiece used by Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon among a jettison checklist of items dated July 8, 1969, at an auction in New York, June 23, 2022. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialStephanie Clegg, an art collector who purchased a purported Marc Chagall painting at Sotheby?s in 1994 that has now been declared a fake, in Beach Haven, N.J., July 1, 2022. (Aaron Richter/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo of puerh teas provided by Sotheby?s, which for the first time will be auctioning lots of the prized product. (Sotheby?s via The New York Times)
Editorial"Versus Medici" by Jean-Michel Basquiat, left, and "Love is in the Air" by Banksy, right, are displayed during an auction at Sotheby’s in New York, May 12, 2021. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)