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Prolific sculptor, teacher and art writer Sidney Geist remains after his death in 2005 a leading authority on pioneer modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Geist’s book, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture, is widely considered the seminal study. Geist went on to publish several other books on Brancusi's work, including a catalogue raisonné. In this excerpt from a collection of unpublished essays, Geist describes the great sculptor's last days, when art patrons in Chicago and New York competed to have The Endless Column erected on American soil, a project the dying master himself boasted would result in “one of the marvels of the world.” Sidney Geist's remarkable e-leaf on Brancusi's tenuous friendship with Auguste Rodin and his work with James Joyce is available from our Bookstore.