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LAWRENCE BRAUN AFAS
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Automotive Fine Art Sculpture by Lawrence Braun.
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HIROHATA MERC
& EL MATADOR >
PRICE LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF SCULPTURES 1997-1988:
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1997-1988
CARLO COMMENTS ON THE RED HEAD 1997
Bronze and stainless on marble and walnut.
Edition of 21, 21x18x16”
Chief Designer, Carlo Chiti, describes a feature of the V-12 Testa Rosa motor to a Ferrari mechanic. One is drawn to speculate on the point that the designer is making as the mechanic looks intently at the mechanism. Eventually the viewer cannot resist releasing the engine stand and rotating the highly detailed motor for a close personal inspection of one’ own.
Price: $11,800.00
SIGNAL TO A SILVER ARROW: A. NEUBAUER 1997
Bronze on marble and walnut.
Edition of 14, 21x24x8”
Team Manager, Alfred Neubauer, signals from the pits using a sign board to relay important information to one of his Mercedes drivers racing by. The driving force behind Mercedes racing for over three decades, Neubauer is credited with “inventing” the famous Silver Arrow. In 1934, the white painted Mercedes cars which were built to the 750 Kilogram Formula, were weighed before practice for the Eifelrennen and found to be 1 kg overweight. Nuebauer is credited with the inspired idea to simply remove the paint, bringing the cars barely within the weight limit. Thus exposing the gleaming metallic skin, and the Silver Arrow was born!
Price: SOLD OUT
OUTLAW 1997
Bronze on walnut.
Edition of 50, 3.75x8x5”
Price: $850.00
MOTORIST FAIRE 1997
Bronze on marble and walnut.
Edition of 14, 12x5x4”
In the early part of the century, the adventurous lady motorist had to abandon usual feminine fashion of the day for the sturdy and practical protective clothing of an Automobilist. In this quarter life-size bust, such an adventuress smiles with the confidence of knowing that she is prepared for the open road and the new freedom that the automobile will provide.
Price: $950.00
HIROHATA MERC 1996
Bonded aluminum on marble.
Open edition, 3x9x4”
Custom ’51 Mercury show car built by Barris for Bob Hirohata. Cast by hand in the artist’s studio, bonded aluminum is durable a composite of atomized aluminum powder and synthetic resin, which has excellent detail and a finish resembling pewter.
Price: $175.00
LAKESTER 1996
Bronze on marble.
Edition of 50, 3½x9x4”
Price: $575.00
1938 Morgan 4+4 T.T. REPLICA 1995
Bronze on granite.
Edition of 14, 9.5x23x10”
One of the very rare cycle fender, flat radiator specials built for racing by the Morgan factory, this T.T. replica was driven by Peter Morgan.
Price: $3,850.00
ALA KART 1995
Bronze on walnut.
Edition of 21, 5.5x12x5.5”.
George Barris’s award winning, custom show pickup truck, the Ala Kart, trails dust as it speeds along with Barris at the wheel.
Price: $1050.00
BOYD 1994
Bronze on marble.
Edition of 14, 10x5x5”.
A one quarter life-size portrait bust of famed hot rod designer and builder, Boyd Coddington. Boyd is dressed in his trademark Hawaiian shirt and looks over one of his award winning cars at the Oakland Roadster Show trophy.
Price: $800.00
LAS MANOS DEL MAESTRO 1994
Bronze on marble.
Edition of 14, 21x10x17”.
Juan Manuel Fangio, using his hands, illustrates a point to his friend and teammate, Peter Collins. Both drivers were on the 1956 Ferrari formula one team, and it was Collins who gave up his Lancia Ferrari D-50 to Fangio during the Italian Gran Prix at Monza that season. Fangio’s D-50 was retired from that race with a broken steering arm, but with the relatively healthy car of Collins, he went on to place second and win enough points to claim the World Championship for himself and Ferrari.
Price: $4,700.00
HERRMANN AND LINGE CHARGE THE CROSSING 1993
Bronze and stainless-steel on walnut.
Edition of 21, 6x16x10”.
In the early morning of the 1954 Mille Miglia, Hans Herrmann piloted the prototype Porsche 550-08 with Herbert Linge as navigator. As they rounded a blind right hand curve at 90 mph, Linge absorbed in his route notes, Herrmann was shocked to see a railway crossing gate dropping directly across his path. The track steward, who should have flagged them to a stop before the turn, stood at the crossing, equally shocked, as the speeding silver car bore down on him. At that instant, he knew what the driver of the car could not see, that a locomotive was closing fast on the intersection.
With no time or space to brake, Herrmann pushed Linge’s head down as he himself ducked below the short wind screen and accelerated blind. The flagman jumped away, the crossing guard held the gate just above its cradle and the little Porsche slipped through the crossing just ahead of the racing train. Herrmann and Linge went on to place best in the 1500 cc sport car class and sixth overall.
Price: SOLD OUT
FLYING WITH EAGLES II 1992
Bronze and stainless-steel on marble.
Edition of 21, 20x15x7”.
When a driver pulls into the pits, his pit crew must fly into action to ensure that not a second is wasted. This one quarter life-size figure is a tribute to the crewmen who vault the pit wall with two massive racing tires and race to get them to the changer, already pulling the old tread off the car. The bronze figure of this crewman runs with a Goodyear Eagle under each arm.
Price: $3,800.00
MASTER OF MODENA 1992
Bronze on marble.
Edition of 21, 20x10x7.5” (Very limited availability)
Enzo Ferrari, depicted in mid-life, surveys the horizon from the works drive in Modena, Italy. Certainly, Ferrari was a dynamic and influential figure in automotive history. In this quarter life-size full figure portrait he is portrayed in characteristic high waisted pants and suspenders, resting one foot on a large oil bucket.
Price: SOLD OUT
REFLECTING NUVOLARI 1992
Bronze on marble.
MUSEUM EDITION of 21, 33x11x10”.
One of the great drivers of all time, Tazio Nuvolari, is sensitively portrayed in this life-size portrait bust. Shown later in life, Nuvolari reflects on his stellar career by reviewing clippings and photos he carried into every race in his billfold. Dressed in monogrammed jersey, leather helmet and racing goggles, Nuvolari has around his neck the gauze mask prescribed by doctors to protect his fire damaged lungs from the fumes oil and fuel while racing.
Price: $4,850.00
SPIRIT OF VICTORY 1992
Bronze and stainless steel on marble and walnut
Exclusive edition for Maxwell House Spirit Award, 10x6x6”
Price: SOLD OUT
EL MAESTRO 1991
Stainless-steel and bronze on marble.
Edition of 21, 11x24x14”.
Juan Manuel Fangio masterfully drifts the Lancia-Ferrari D50 through a corner on his way to winning the 1956 World Championship. At Monza in the 1956 Italian Grand Prix Fangio was forced to retire his D50 with a broken steering arm. His teammate, Peter Collins, also in good points standing for the championship, volunteered his relatively healthy Ferrari to Fangio. With Collins’ car and time to make up, the “Maestro” drove to second place 5.7 seconds behind Stirling Moss earning enough points to achieve his fourth World Championship.
The D50, designed by Vittorio Jano, it’s side panniers mounted between the wheels to reduce turbulence, forecast the aerodynamic ground-effects styling of Formula One race cars today. Aesthetically and technically a landmark design, it is a shame that only one Lancia-Ferrari D50 has survived to the present.
EL MAESTRO received the 1992 Meadow Brook Hall Award of Excellence.
Price: $10,500.00
THE BUG 1991
Bronze on walnut.
Edition of 70, 4.5x10x5”.
Currently displayed on Don Garlits’ Museum of Drag Racing is one of the earliest drag racing specials, Dick Kraft’s “Bug”. Depicted in this piece with Kraft at the wheel, the Bug kicks up a cloud of smoke and dust as it bolts away from the starter.
Price: $650.00
THE DAREDEVIL 1990
Bronze on walnut.
Edition of 21, 20.5x11x11”.
Famous driver and promoter of racing events, Barney Oldfield flashes his familiar grin with his trademark cigar stub clinched between his teeth. In this life size portrait bust, Oldfield is depicted in victorious good humor after one of his many daring exploits which earned him the title of “Speed King”, his goggles are pushed up on his forehead and his lucky kerchief is still around his neck.
THE DAREDEVIL was awarded the Athena Award of Merit at the 1989 Automotive Fine Art Society Exhibition at Pebble Beach, CA.
Price: $4,200.00
PANEL BEATER 1990
Bronze.
Edition of 70, 10x4.25x4.25”.
Custom coach work is sometimes more art than craft. An experienced panel beater can create the most intricate and beautiful body panels out of flat metal with only the simplest of tools. Working in the open air, a craftsman forms a mud flap, his hammer blows shaping the gleaming metal against a sand bag upon a tree stump.
Price: $760.00
QUESTIONABLE COUNCIL 1990
Bronze on walnut and marble.
Edition of 21, 9.5x5.5x3”.
A humorous one quarter life-size portrait bust of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth with his cartoon creation “Rat Fink” perched on his shoulder in the roll of a muse.
Price: $675.00
FERRARI 250 TOUR D’FRANCE 1989
Bronze on walnut.
Edition of 100, 2x6x4”.
A thirteen louver Tour d’France 250 Ferrari in a swirl of dust.
Price: $350.00
PETER HELCK 1989
Bronze on marble and walnut.
Edition of 21, 19x7x7”.
A life-size portrait bust of Peter Helck, the foremost American illustrator and historian of the automobile. His paintings and writings chronicle the history of the automobile from the turn of the century until his death in 1988.
Price: $3,200.00
OF SPEED AND ICE 1989
Bronze on marble and walnut.
Edition of 21, 25x38x22”.
A dramatic bronze sculpture based on Henry Ford’s world record for the flying mile in 39.4 seconds and at a speed of 91.37 mph set on the ice of Lake Saint Claire near Detroit, Michigan on January 12, 1904.For the record run, a three mile rude-surfaced ditch was plowed on the frozen surface of the lake and prepared with cinders for traction. The piece shows Henry Ford piloting the speeding car through the icy course while his mechanic, “Spider” Huff, courageously clings to the side of the motor operating the throttle. In the background, an ice boat veers sharply away as the big red car rockets past in a blast of swirling snow and flying cinders.
OF SPEED AND ICE was awarded the Peter Helck Award at the 1989 Automotive Fine Arts Society Exhibition held in conjunction with the Annual Pebble Beach Concourse d’Elegance. The Peter Helck Award is given once each year to the artist whose new work most exemplifies the highest standards of the AFAS.
Price: $13,500.00
CHALLENGER I 1989
Bronze on walnut.
Edition of 21, 7.5x24x5”.
Built by Californian Mickey Thompson, the Challenger I set an unofficial land speed record for wheel driven vehicles in September, 1960. Thompson’s attempt to make his 406.6 mph official by repeating the performance on a second run was thwarted by mechanical failure. Powered by four super-charged Pontiac engines each producing more than 850 horsepower mounted in a complex tubular space frame and aerodynamic body the Challenger represents a triumph of engineering and performance.
Price: $2,000.00
ENZO FERRARI 1989
Bronze on walnut.
MUSEUM EDITION of 21, 21x8x8”.
A strong sculptural portrait bust of the renowned Italian auto builder, presented in characteristic sun glasses. Certainly one of the most charismatic and influential personalities in auto manufacturing and racing of all time.
Bronze available in two sizes, either the life-size Museum edition or the quarter life-size Collector edition.
Price: $3,500.00
ENZO FERRARI 1989
Bronze on walnut.
COLLECTOR EDITION of 49, 9x3.5x3.5”.
One quarter life-size version of the portrait bust described above.
Price: $700.00
PORSCHE EINS 1988
Stainless-steel and bronze on walnut.
Edition of 21, 10.5x27x17”.
Ferry Porsche, founder of Porsche AG., at the wheel of the first car to bear the name Porsche. Serial number 356-001, this car is restored and currently in the Porsche Museum. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche is included in the piece as a passenger. The first casting of this sculpture was presented to Dr. Ferry Porsche by the Porsche Club of America in 1988, the fortieth anniversary of the Porsche automobile.
Price: $9,500.00
BERND ROSEMEYER 1988
Bronze on marble and walnut.
Edition of 49, 10.5x4x4”.
The famous Auto Union pilot of the pre-WWII era presented in a one quarter life-size portrait. One of the most colorful drivers of that period who’s career ended in his tragic death during a land speed record attempt in 1938. Rosemeyer is depicted in a linen helmet with his racing goggles pulled up off his eyes. A miniature sketch of the famous Auto Union race car emerges from a cloud of dust at the rear of the sculpture.
Price: $580.00
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Prices effective August 2005. Prices may change without notice.
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