Two murals painted by Michel Cadoret were presented to the New School in 1959 by the Committee for the Commemoration of French-American Scholarship, in gratitude for establishing l'École Libre des Hautes Études at the New School. The École Libre offered academic positions to scholars fleeing Nazi-occupied France and Belgium. The mural, "Welcome," hung on the third floor in the student lounge of the List Building at 65 West Eleventh Street, and "Cooperation" hung on the second floor of the same building. The paintings were chosen by Jacques Lassagne, Galerie Charpentier d'École de Paris. In 1985, a construction crew on the third floor found "Welcome" beneath a wall. In 2006, the mural was found stored in a boiler room of the 66 West Twelfth Street building, and determined to be beyond repair. The location of the other mural is not known.