[2] Over the next year, he applied twice at the "Ministry of Religion and Public Instruction" for a scholarship to study abroad, but was denied both times.

[1] That same year saw the beginning of a journal called Voința națională (The National Will) where his friends Ilarie Chendi and Emil Gârleanu gave him critical exposure.

In 1909, his former employers at the Ministry of Religion sent him to Horezu Monastery to study the condition of its art works and write a report for the "Bulletin of the Historical Monuments Commission".

He was preparing to do further studies on other historical monuments and travel to Paris to research methods of restoration, but died of an unspecified heart ailment.

A major retrospective of his work was held at the National Museum of Art of Romania to celebrate his birth centennial in 1980.