Fine Interiors (A770) Tue, 13th Mar 2018 Viewing: 9 March 2018 9am - 5pm 11 March 2018 10am - 1pm 12 March 2018 9am - 5pm 13 March 2018 from 9am Lot 253

Estimate: £300 - £500 + Fees Arnold FRIBERG (1913 - 2010): A collection (in 2 folders) of over 100 Autograph Letters Signed; addressed to Allan Husberg (A fellow American Artist and owner of: Husberg Fine Arts Gallery; Scottsdale Arnold FRIBERG (1913 - 2010): A collection (in 2 folders) of over 100 Autograph Letters Signed; addressed to Allan Husberg (A fellow American Artist and owner of: Husberg Fine Arts Gallery; Scottsdale, ); mostly written in pencil on A4 paper, c183 Pages; Also included: 2 ALS from Robert Fellowes (Baron Fellowes was Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 1990 to 1999), Buckingham Palace; one about the sitting of the Queen for the painting he did of her on her horse Centennial, and the other an invitation to the Queen’s Birthday Parade, 16 June, 1990 (with 2 tickets); Also included An engraving of: Eskimo Returning from the Hunt, by HENRY NAPARTUK, titled and signed in pencil; Also included a copy of the Academy Award nomination he received for his 15 'pre-visualization' paintings for the Cecil B. DeMille film: The Ten Commandments’; Also included colour photographs with the Royal Canadian Mounties and a Polaroid with added touches by Friberg (mounted on a sheet of paper, addressed to Allan, and with explanation of the work by the artist); etc. Arnold Friberg (was born to a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother, his family moved to Arizona, USA when he was three years old) He was an illustrator and painter noted for the series of paintings depicting scenes from the ; his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of praying at Valley Forge; the 15 'pre-visualization' paintings he did for the Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments which were used to promote the film worldwide; The portraits of Prince Charles and The Queen (both done at Buckingham Palace); Over 300 painting of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (he was made an honorary Mountie, the only American to receive that distinction); He was admitted as a lifetime member of the Royal Society of Arts.; (2) Condition Report