 Luchian still used Grigorescu as a source of inspiration in his own work, prompting scholars to argue that Grigorescu's "Salonul Independenților" reception was Bogdan-Pitești's unwilling concession to his star protégé.Bogdan-Pitești was by then an inspiration for the blooming Romanian Symbolist movement.In effect, he was the first Romanian expert on the work of Symbolist celebrities like Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, and (his favorite) Alexandre Séon.