A Sotheby's New York employee demonstrates the size of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur skeleton on Tuesday in New York. Julia Nikhinson/AP hide caption
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Sotheby's is auctioning a special, fireproof copy of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Proceeds will go to support PEN America's work opposing book bans. Sotheby's hide caption
Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" (2018) is installed at Sotheby's on Sept. 3, in London. On Thursday it was auctioned for $25.4 million, a record for the artist. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's hide caption
Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" is installed at Sotheby's on September 03, 2021 in London, England. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's hide caption
A small porcelain bowl, pictured in a photo provided by Sotheby's, sold for $35 at a yard sale but was later identified as a rare, 15th-century Chinese artifact. Sotheby's via AP hide caption
Sotheby's says its board has accepted a purchase offer from telecom billionaire Patrick Drahi. Here, the auction house's headquarters are seen on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Rhino horns are prized in Asian countries and can garner tens of thousands of dollars per pound. Wildlife conservationists argue that the appetite for the endangered species' appendage in legal and illegal markets has decimated the population across Africa. Raymond Roig/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Jean-Michel Basquiat's untitled painting of a skull is displayed behind an official with Sotheby's, which offered the media a preview earlier this month. On Thursday, the work sold for $110.5 million — the highest sum ever paid at auction for a work by a U.S. artist. Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The Pink Star diamond, which fetched the highest price ever for a jewel offered at auction, is displayed at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on March 29. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption
St. Jerome was previously thought to have been painted by a 16th century Italian artist. According to a complaint filed by Sotheby's auction house, it is actually a modern fake, painted in the 20th century. Sotheby's hide caption
Picasso's 1914 cubist drawing L'homme au Gibus, or Man in the Opera Hat, is presented at Sotheby's auction house in Paris. Remy de la Mauviniere/AP hide caption