Romanian government will buy Brancusi work despite failed fundraising attempt

Few works by the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, who moved to France permanently at the age of 28, are held in his home country. So the Romanian government jumped at the chance to acquire his limestone sculpture The Wisdom of the Earth (1907), which depicts a seated female nude.The work was put up for sale for 11m by the heirs of Gheorghe Romascu, a friend of Brancusi, who bought it from the artist in 1911. (The sculpture was seized by the Communist government in 1957 and returned to Rom