Stanley Wanlass (b. 1941)
Inscribed with the title and artist’s name on brass plate on base
Numbered 27/30
Painted bronze, mounted on a walnut base
Length: 27 in.
Executed in 1985
Arizona 2016
Spirit of Mercedes by Stanley Wanlass, 1985
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$11,500 USD | Sold
| Phoenix, Arizona
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Carl Benz, seated alongside a passenger, is guided down the road by his daughter Mercedes, who lights the way with a burning torch held over the single front wheel. The sculpture, created in 1985, celebrates the centennial of Benz’s historic Patent-Motorwagen from 1886.
