 Ion Irimescu donated his works (approximately 300 sculptures and 1000 drawings) and, as a result, it was created the biggest permanent collection of an author from Romania.One of his works, the statue of Dimitrie Cantemir, was at Ambrosiana Library, Milan, between the statues of Dante and Shakespeare.Ion Irimescu said that, during one meeting with Nicolae Ceauşescu, he expressed his intention to sculpt a life-size bronze statue of Mihail Sadoveanu, but he did't have enough material to finish his work.