during his stay abroad, nicolae tonitza was influenced by the works of rembrandt and antonio da correggio. an admirer of both frans masereel and käthe kollwitz, he also adapted expressionist guidelines — ones especially present in his satirical drawings, but also manifested large works such as "coadă la pâine" ("queuing for bread", 1920). according to zambaccian, tonitza stopped short of adopting clear expressionist tenets ("modigliani and pascin favored contorting [shapes], while tonitza does not stray away from nature and places an emphasis on feeling"); the two continued to oppose each other on the issue of henri matisse's style (admired by zambaccian, by hotly contested by tonitza). a more distant but no less direct influence was the graphic art of honoré daumier, which tonitza had studied.