Bird in Space by Constantin Brâncuși, 1923
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
Erisava: Somebody spent months polishing this. I can't tell if that's the same as good.
What's your take?
The best story here is a customs fight: when one of these arrived in the US, officials wouldn't accept it as art at all and taxed it as a piece of manufactured metal. It took a court case to get that overturned.
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There are apparently more than a dozen versions of this shape about, which takes some of the shine off.