His body was exhumed in March 1935 and cremated in Marseilles on the 13th. The ashes, brought to America by Ravagli in implausible circumstances, were to be poured into the concrete of a funeral monument built for this purpose by Ravagli at Kiowa Ranch in San Cristobal, near Taos. On arrival at New York he placed some unknown ashes in the ceramic vase, which he had sent to himself poste restante , and carried it to Taos. This article was written after a visit to Vence by the Baron de Haulleville, who had come to keep up his brother's tomb in Saint Paul. The Villa Robermond, later the Villa Aurella, was demolished, and on the site today stands the little property Le Saint Martin, on the Chemin de Claire Fontaine in the Quartier Saint Donat.
Nothing remains from the villa but the entrance gate, topped with a metal arch.
A commemorative plaque was placed on it in 1985 on the occasion of the centenary of Lawrence's birth, by the municipality of the Broxtowe district. A tombstone decorated with a phoenix, Lawrence's device, outlined in seaside pebbles by Dominique Matteucci of Vence, was saved after the exhumation by an Englishwoman living in Vence, Mrs. Gordon Crotch, who brought it to England. It was later taken to Eastwood by Professor Vivian De Sola Pinto of Nottingham.