The museums were full of the work of Cezanne, Gaugin, Van Gogh, and Lautrec, and Chen spent hours going over their sketches and biographies, studying how they made themselves into great artists.
最讓他流連的是博物館展出的印象派作品，梵谷、高更、羅特列克、塞尚等大師的奮鬥史，還有畫家的信札、羅曼史和傳記。這些完整的資料讓阿寶深刻地瞭解他們的思想和畫路歷程。對他影響最大的，則是參觀了巴黎雙年展。