Brâncuși was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy in 1990. Brâncuși's piece
"Madame L.R." sold for €29.185 million ($37.2 million) in 2009, setting a record price for a
sculpture sold at auction. Google commemorated his 135th birthday with a Doodle in 2011
consisting of seven of his works.
Brâncuși's works are housed in the National Museum of Art of Romania (Bucharest),
the Museum of Modern Art(New York) and other museums around the world. The Philadelphia
Museum of Art holds the largest collection of Brâncuși sculptures in the United States.
Brâncuși on his own work
(French) "Il y a des imbéciles qui définissent mon
"There are idiots who define my work
œuvre comme abstraite, pourtant ce qu'ils qualifient
as abstract; yet what they call
d'abstrait est ce qu'il y a de plus réaliste, ce qui est
abstract is what is most realistic.
réel n'est pas l'apparence mais l'idée, l'essence des
What is real is not the appearance,
choses."[24] [25]
but the idea, the essence of things."
(Romanian) "Am șlefuit materia pentru a afla linia
"I
continuă. Și când am constatat că n-o pot afla, m-am
continuous line. And when I realized
oprit; parcă cineva nevăzut mi-a dat peste mâini."[26]
I could not find it, I stopped, as if an
ground
matter
to
find
the
unseen someone