 Since travel was greatly limited during the occupation, Dewis often found his subjects within his own garden, in nearby parks and along the Atlantic coast.Louis Dewis died of cancer at "Villa Pat" in late 1946.Bordeaux's "Sud-Ouest" newspaper, successor to "La Petite Gironde", which had been administered decades earlier by his maternal grandfather, published its lamentations under the headline, "A Painter Is No Longer With Us."