 A year later, samples of his art were included in a Romanian avant-garde retrospective at the Israel Museum after the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam (see Stern).Some of his drawings and papers, kept in Teodorescu's personal collection, were improperly preserved after the latter's death in 1987, and are presumed lost.In his early youth, Păun declared that his poems from that period could only be read at the top of one's voice—a demand that, according to literary historian Geo Șerban, may show Păun's debt at the time to Russian Futurism.