Spencer Zahn's Grand Hotel artwork

The 'Robert's Box' illustration

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This unique piece of original artwork by renowned designer Spencer Zahn has been offered for auction by Gary Brooker, the sale proceeds to go to the BJ Wilson Memorial Fund, and to continue the running of 'Beyond the Pale', the Procol Harum website.

The dimensions of the picture, measured by Gary himself, are 740 x 750 mm. The artwork has been executed in charcoal on Rives BFK Elephant double weight paper. It has been fixed to prevent smudging.

We took two sets of photographs of the Grand Hotel original: the first was taken out of doors at the Brooker residence on 26 October 2004; the second was taken indoors in Bristol on 8 November, with the addition of items to show the scale of the pictures: a yardstick and an apple.

The first photo rather over-emphasises the slightly yellow tinge of the art paper; the other has a blue tinge reflected from the cloth the pictures are propped against. Click on the images to see them in detail.

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