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<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"CONTENT="text/html; charset=x-mac-roman"/><META NAME="GENERATOR"CONTENT="[4th Dimension 2003 Macintosh]"/><TITLE>Arthur B. Frost art at auction</TITLE> <META NAME="keywords" content= "auction, Frost, Arthur B., Frost, illustration, art, fourteen panel sequential drawing, fishing, Sports and Games in the Open, A.B. Frost, 1899"/><META NAME="description" content= "Original art: Fisherman becomes increasingly frustrated, but returns home with an impressive story."/></HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="GRAY"TEXT="BLACK"Link="blue"VLink="purple"Alink="green"><P><CENTER><Table><TABLE BORDER=0=100%TABLE WIDTH=85%><TR> <TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD></TR><TR> <TD COLSPAN=6><FONT COLOR=GRAYx</TD><TD COLSPAN=8=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><IMG SRC="../a33pix/a33_042.jpg"BORDER=1></TD><TD COLSPAN=6><FONT COLOR=GRAYx</TD></TR><TR> <TD COLSPAN=6=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4>Lot 42</TD><TD COLSPAN=6=LEFT VALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Palatino,serif"Size=5>Arthur B. Frost</B></TD><TD COLSPAN=2=LEFT VALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Palatino,serif"Size=2>1851-1928</TD><TD COLSPAN=6=RIGHT VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD></TR><TR> <TD COLSPAN=6=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD><TD COLSPAN=8=LEFT><FONT SIZE=3><FONT FACE=Palatino,serif>Fourteen panel sequential drawing: Fisherman becomes increasingly frustrated, but returns home with an impressive story. </TD><TD COLSPAN=6=RIGHT VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="GRAY">x</TD></TR><TR> <TD COLSPAN=6=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GRAY>x</TD><TD COLSPAN=8=LEFT><FONT SIZE=3><I>�Mr. Bites Goes Fishing�</I> Fourteen panel sequential drawing, author: A.B. Frost, <B><I>Sports and Games in the Open</B></I>; publisher: (Harper and Brothers), 1899; <BR>Pen & ink, 7.75x10.5, 7.5x10.5", signed lr</TD><TD COLSPAN=6=RIGHT VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GRAY>x</TD></TR><TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=6=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GRAY>x</TD><TD COLSPAN=8=LEFT VALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Palatino,serif"SIZE=2>Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000</TD><TD COLSPAN=6=RIGHT VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GRAY>x</TD></TR><TR> <TD COLSPAN=6=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GRAY>x</TD><TD COLSPAN=8=LEFT><FONT SIZE=2>Hand written captions are as follows: �Panel One: Mr Bites stopping over night at a country hotel hears some genuine fish stories: he becomes enthusiastic and determines to try his luck at it.� Panel Two: Accordingly he rises at daybreak the following morning to dig worms for bait ��I was bound to have that chap if I had to dig a hole to China for him,�� he said. Panel Three: �Having engaged the services of a native (who assures him his worms are useless and who gets him alot of queen bugs at a quarter a piece to take their place) he proceeds to his best spot for black bass.� Panel Four: �His first cast hooks the native (Who is cutting up eels for his own bait) by the shirt collar.� Panel Five: �His second cast takes his cork helmet with it.� Panel Six: �His third cast is a heavy one.� Panel Seven: �As he can't get into the boat in his heavy boots filled with water, he is forced to shore ignominiously by the native.� Panel Eight: �Where his boots are emptied� Panel Nine: �He thinks he will wade and cast� Panel Ten: �He strikes a fish: great excitement!� Panel Eleven: �Fish makes a break! So does Mr. Bites!� Panel Twelve: �And hangs on like grim death� Panel Thirteen: �Lands him at last� Panel Fourteen: �And forever after tells fish stories in his own account.�</TD><TD COLSPAN=6=RIGHT VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GRAY>x</TD></TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=6=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR=GRAY>x</TD><TD COLSPAN=1=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><A HREF="a33_041.html"><FONT FACE="Palatino,serif"SIZE=4>Prev. 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