Some time afterwards, when the Republican government's Northern Expeditionary forces took Shanghai and drove out the warlord, Liu had the course reinstated. The whole incident dragged on for six or seven years in all, and Liu's insistence in standing up for art earned him an even greater name for himself.
首先上海閘北保衛團即請當局查禁，繼之又有上海總商會兼正俗社社長朱葆三，致函政府當局及江蘇省長，嚴厲譴責劉海粟「奈何以夷狄之末俗，壞我國男女之大防」。