 After Alexandre's premature death in 1987 in London from an aneurysm, while attending the reunion of the US Army Second Armored Division, his wife Elaine took over the business.Following the death of Micheline in 2007, the family agreed to donate their grandfather's archives to MoMA, which held a supporting exhibition of the collection in 2010.Because the Nazis banned so-called "degenerate art" from entering Germany, art so designated in France was looted and held in what became known as the "Martyr's Room" at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.