 Laserstein was rediscovered in 1987, when Thomas Agnew & Sons and the Belgrave Gallery organized a joint exhibition and sale of works she had retained in her personal collection, including "Abend über Potsdam", now in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.Laserstein attended the exhibition together with her close friend and model of many decades, Traute (Gertrud) Rose.Her painting "Traute washing" was the first purchase by the National Museum of Women in the Arts with its own funds.