 Luchian then upset Bogdan-Pitești by not inviting him over, and was punished with a telegram addressed "To the ugliest tourist in Sinaia" (a pun on Luchian's proverbial bad looks).In the mid-1910s, Luchian had been incapacitated by multiple sclerosis.Bogdan-Pitești was one of the last to visit him before his death in June 1916, recording for posterity Luchian's resigned remark