EditorialOriginal Harry Potter watercolour illustration introducing boy wizard to the world on first book cover sets auction record with $600,000 pre-sale estimate
EditorialA page showing the Ten Commandments in the Codex Sassoon, considered the oldest nearly complete Hebrew Bible, in New York, Feb. 10, 2023. (Eric Helgas/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)
EditorialA piece of art for sale by Mike Diamond, of the Beastie Boys, at the Sotheby’s Office in Los Angeles, Nov. 14, 2020. (Devin Oktar Yalkin/The New York Times)
EditorialCatalogue of the Museum of Bront? Relics, the property of Mr. Robinson Brown late of Haworth, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge at their House ... the 2nd day of July, 1898 : Brown, Robinson.
Editorialat arrivals for Take Home a Nude Art Party and Auction New York Academy of Art Benefit, Sothebys, New York, NY October 9, 2018. Photo By: Jason Mendez/Everett Collection