 In April 1966 , at the age of 26 , Chatwin was promoted to a director of Sotheby 's , a position to which he had aspired . To his disappointment , he was made a junior director and lacked voting rights on the board . This disappointment , along with boredom and increasing discomfort over potentially illegal side deals taking place at Sotheby 's , including the sale of objects from the Pitt @-@ Rivers museum collection , led Chatwin to resign from his Sotheby 's post in June 1966 . 
