 While in Paris in the 1950s, his meetings with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque made a deep impression.Bangdel was the first Nepali artist to study and work in Paris and London, and made a name for himself as an artist with his distinctive, non-traditional Nepalese style.Bangdel stayed in Europe until he was invited by the late King Mahendra to establish the modern art movement in Nepal in 1961.