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LAWRENCE BRAUN AFAS
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Automotive Fine Art Sculpture by Lawrence Braun.
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AIRBORNE: Stainles-steel, bronze and clear resin sculpture commemorating the 1955 Moss/Jenkinson Mille Miglia victory in the Mercedes-Benz 300SLR.
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PRICE LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF SCULPTURES 2005-1998:
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 | 2005-1998
WIDCAT WILLYS 2005 (new this year)
Bronze on clear resin base.
Edition of 21,
This 1937 Willys is owned and shown by Al and Leora Brokley of Morris Illinois. In 2004 the car won the Riddler Award, the highest honor at the Detroit Autorama. Al has owned and drag raced the Willys since he was 16. The Brockleys recently moved to their new home in Morris which was built with substantial consideration for garaging Al’s Willys and its show trailer. Leora quips, “I got the house that came with the garage.”
The clear resin base is cast by hand in the artists studio under high pressure and is one of a number of new pieces by Braun incorporating this material into his compositions.
Price: $950.00
JENATZY IN THE 1903 T.T. 2004 (new this year)
Bronze on walnut box
Edition of 21,
In the 1903 Tourist Trophy race, Camille Jenatzy drove a Mercedes Benz to the marque’s first international racing victory. Jenatzy, a Belgian, was typical of the early Gentlemen racers having substantial wealth from his families tire company he could afford to purchase and race automobiles. A notorious practical joker, he met an untimely end in 1907. He had invited a number of friends on a hunting trip, and one evening while his guests were relaxing, Jenatzy dressed in a heavy fur coat attempted to frighten them by rattling around their cabin making bear noises. One of the alarmed guests ran out of the cabin and shot him, dead.
Price: $750.00
AIRBORNE 2005
Bronze and stainless steel on resin base.
Edition of 21. 6x16x8”
Stirling Moss drives the Mercedes-Benz 300-SLR to victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia with Journalist, Denis Jenkinsen providing course instructions through prearranged hand signals. In 1955 Stirling Moss, with journalist Denis Jenkinson as navigator, drove a Mercedes-Benz 300-SLR to victory in the Mille Miglia. They had planned the route carefully, mapping every detail on a 19 foot roll of paper which Jenkinson read while they drove. Using hand signals he prepared Moss for each turn and crossing they were to encounter. Traveling at speeds in excess of 170 mph they set a course record 10 mph faster than the old record.
Price: $3,200.00
ELEPHANT ROYALE 2004
Bronze or Stainless-steel
Edition of 21, 24x6x5”.
Inspired by Rembrant Bugatti’s elephant mascot used on the Bugatti Royale, Braun’s enlargement of the subject in his style. Available as stand alone sculpture or as a fountain.
Price: Varies according to configuration and material.
FANGIO IN THE MERCEDES BENZ W196 2003
Bronze and stainless steel on marble and walnut.
Edition of 14, 6x16x8”.
Juan Manuel Fangio pilots the monoposto W196 on his way to his second consecutive Grand Prix World Championship for Mercedes-Benz in 1955. The polished stainless steel body of the racer is a dramatic contrast to the bronze of the roadway and the figure of Fangio.
Price: 3,000.00
MOSS IN THE MERCEDES-BENZ W196 2002
Bronze on marble and walnut.
Edition of 35, 6x16x8”.
At Aintree in 1955, Stirling Moss led the four Mercedes-Benz W196 Monopostos to first, second, third and fourth place finishes in the British Grand Prix. Moss further enhanced Mercedes-Benz competitive reputation that year by both securing the World Sports Car Championship title and winning the Mille Miglia in 300SLRs. The W196 dominated Grand Prix competition technologically in the mid-fifties, whether in streamlined body or open wheeled road-racing trim. With it Fangio and Mercedes earned two consecutive World Championships in 1954 and 1955. Had Mercedes-Benz continued their racing program it is clear that the W196 had established a firm foundation for continued racing success. This bronze was created and produced exclusively for Mercedes-Benz USA.
Price: SOLD OUT
CADSTER 2001
Bonded aluminum on marble
Open edition, 3x9x4”.
Custom show roaster built from a 1958 Cadillac by Gar Tompkins, Brentwood, CA. Cast by hand in the artist’s studio, bonded aluminum is a durable composite of atomized aluminum powder and synthetic resin which has excellent detail and a finish resembling pewter.
Price: $175.00
HALF-LIFE HEMI 2003
Stainless-Steel and Bronze on granite and walnut.
Edition to be determined. 18x36x21”
A one half scale top fuel dragster motor detail from the Don Garlits Englishtown Wheelstand Monument. Crafted in cast and fabricated stainless steel and bronze.
Price: $18,000.00
ENGLISHTOWN WHEELSTAND MONUMENT 2000
Bronze and Stainless Steel.
Edition to be determined*. 157”x36”x56”.
Completed in December 2000 I installed a 13’ version of my sculpture ENGLISHTOWN WHEELSTAND for the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, Ocala, Florida. This bronze and stainless steel sculpture of Don Garlits’ Top Fuel Dragster, Swamp Rat XXX at the apex of a dramatic vertical wheel stand rises over two stories tall on its base and is the largest piece I have done to date.
In the 1986 Summer National Drag Races, Englishtown New Jersey, “Big Daddy” Dan Garlits drove the streamlined Swamp Rat XXX into a dramatic vertical wheelstand. Big Daddy walked away from that terrible accident, rebuilt the car and campaigned it for the rest of the season. The Swamp Rat XXX was then retired to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC where it sits today. I originally created ENGLISHTOWN WHEELSTAND as a one twelfth scale bronze recreation of that dramatic event.
The enlarged sculpture is scaled to half-life size and is primarily bronze with many polished stainless steel elements. The engine, transmission, fuel tank, cockpit floor, armor shield, wheels and hubs are all stainless. The “God Is Love” cross, one of Garlits’ “trademarks”, is also raised, polished stainless. The polished elements are an eye-catching contrast to the jet-black Top Fuel racer presented at its vertical apex. Much of the dragster had to be fabricated out of bronze tubing and sheet, which is alloy-matched to the cast portion of the sculpture. Because the bronze car is mounted as it is, the open bottom of the dragster provides a full view into the space frame structure that is replicated in bronze at the front of the car. The piece is mounted on a granite monument, which bears the names of all the inductees into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame.
*Under special arrangement with Don Garlits, the Museum of Drag Racing and the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame a very small number of these monuments will be available to suitable, approved venues.
Price: $117,000.00
FINAL FLAG UNFURLED 1999
Bronze and stainless on marble and walnut.
Edition of 21, 20x10x7”.
The driver’s goal: to perform well, hold together mind, body, and machine and cross the finish in a flurry of checkered black and white. In an eloquent study of form and motion the bronze flagman reaches far out of the elevated signal tower to hail the winner with a cascade of polished bronze and stainless-steel checkers.
“The sculpture Final Flag Unfurled was inspired by a composite of many similar scenes. It is the third bronze and stainless steel design that I have done based on the flag bearer waving the checkered flag to mark the winner of a race. Of all the images in auto racing, I think that the checkered flag is the most universally recognized as symbolic of the ultimate goal in racing; to finish and preferably to finish first. The challenge that I tackle in the sculpture is to create a feeling of excitement and motion in the static materials of bronze and stainless. By pulling the square pattern of the flag out into curved arcs of varying length I tried to give the impression of movement. Polishing the stainless steel arcs so that they reflect light enhances the sense of motion. As the viewer moves around the piece the reflections move and change. Also, making the black squares of the checkered pattern actual cut-outs, I hope to create an illusion of the ephemeral motion of the waving flag.” Larry Braun
Price: $2,500.00
EL MATADOR 1999
Bonded aluminum on marble.
Open edition, 3x9x4”.
Well known 1940 Ford show car built by Bill Cushenbery. Cast by hand in the artist’s studio, bonded aluminum is a durable composite of atomized aluminum powder and synthetic resin which has excellent detail and a finish resembling pewter.
Price: $175.00
FANGIO IN THE MERCEDES 300-SLR LE MANS 1998
Bronze on marble.
Edition of 20, 8x28x12”.
Juan Fangio corners the Le Mans Mercedes 300-SLR with the special air-brake deployed. This sculpture was specially commissioned by Mercedes-Benz of North America.
Price: SOLD OUT
LOOKING AHEAD, LOOKING BACK 1998
Bronze.
Edition of 75, 3x12x7.5”.
The driver of a speeding Ferrari 315s waves to a child in a pedal car. This piece was specially commissioned for the 1998 California Mille.
Price: SOLD OUT
STEAMBOAT 1998 TROPHY (Large) 1998
Bonded aluminum on walnut.
Edition of 290, 5.25x10.5x7.5”.
Price: SOLD OUT
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STEAMBOAT 1998 TROPHY (Small) 1998
Bonded aluminum.
Edition of 270, 4.25x8x5.5”.
A Porsche 996 Cabriolet drives through a spiral speed ribbon which displays a series of historic Porsche cars representing the fifty year history of the marque. This piece was specially commissioned for the 1998 Porsche Parade in Steamboat Springs, Colorado by the Porsche Club of America.
Price: SOLD OUT
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