 He writes that Bogdan-Pitești had exhausted the patience of French authorities by trafficking in stolen bicycles.From France, Bogdan-Pitești had contemplated the idea of revolutionizing Romanian art, and, upon his arrival to Bucharest, began organizing artists' reunions at the Kübler and Fialkowski coffeehouses.In 1896, with Post-Impressionist artists Constantin Artachino, Ștefan Luchian and Nicolae Vermont, he founded "Salonul Independenților", the Romanian replica of the French "Société des Artistes Indépendants".