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Alexandru BogdanPiteti was a Romanian Symbolist poet, essayist, and art and literary critic, who was also known as a journalist and leftwing political agitator. A wealthy landowner, he invested his fortune in patronage and art collecting, becoming one of the main local promoters of modern art, and a sponsor of the Romanian Symbolist movement. Together with other PostImpressionist and Symbolist cultural figures, BogdanPiteti established Societatea Ileana, which was one of the first Romanian associations dedicated to promoting the avantgarde and independent art. He was also noted for his friendship with the writers JorisKarl Huysmans, Alexandru Macedonski, Tudor Arghezi and Mateiu Caragiale, as well as for sponsoring, among others, the painters tefan Luchian, Constantin Artachino and Nicolae Vermont. In addition to his literary and political activities, Alexandru BogdanPiteti was himself a painter and graphic artist.

A dandy, Alexandru BogdanPiteti himself led a life of luxury, marked by excess, and had by then become a drug addict. He was a proud homosexual , which did not prevent him from keeping as his concubine a younger woman, commonly referred to as Domnica or Mica . Born Alexandra Colanoski, she was born in 1894 to Romanian Poles from Bessarabia, and, according to memoirist Constantin Beldie, had previously been a prostitute at a nightclub.

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