Société des Artistes Indépendants
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". They were soon joined by painter Nicolae Grant and caricaturist Nicolae Petrescu-Găină.