Derain and Raoul Dufy. Resistance In June 1944, he associated himself with the fighters of the communist resistance, namely, Tristan Tzara, André Chamson, René Huyghe, Jean Cassou, and Jean Agamemnon. He was put on the Comité de Libération (Committee of Liberation). He also met Simone Selves, who would later become his wife. His adoptive son, Victor, was captured while on an intelligence mission in France and was put to death. Lurçat would not learn of his disappearance until the following year. Legacy Lurçat died on 6 January 1966 in Saint-Paul de Vence. During the 1980s, his widow Simone established the Musée Jean Lurçat de Saint-Laurent les Tours and the Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie contemporaine, and bequeathed many of his works to posterity. References External links Vidéo: Jean Lurçat (FR) Vidéo: Jean Lurçat(FR) The UNESCO Works of Art collection Mobilier national : Jean Lurçat 1892 births 1966 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters Modern painters Landscape artists Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Académie Colarossi alumni Articles containing video clips People from Vosges (department) Painters from Paris French tapestry artists French Resistance members