Krugier was the exclusive dealer for the works by Pablo Picasso inherited by his granddaughter
Marina Picasso and of the works of
Joaquín Torres-García from the collection of his grandchildren. He also had close business ties to the Swiss artists Alberto Giacometti and
Balthus. His gallery also represented works by
Francis Bacon,
Balthus,
Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Pierre Bonnard,
Georges Braque,
Alexander Calder,
Paul Cézanne,
Marc Chagall,
Edgar Degas,
Eugène Delacroix,
Jean Dubuffet,
Max Ernst,
Théodore Géricault,
Alberto Giacometti,
Phillip Guston,
Victor Hugo,
Paul Klee,
Franz Kline,
Wifredo Lam,
Henri Matisse,
Giorgio Morandi,
Zoran Music,
Odilon Redon,
Germaine Richier,
Georges Seurat,
Paul Signac,
Yves Tanguy, J.M.W. Turner and
Édouard Vuillard, among others. "What distinguished Krugier — who had been in the business since the days when he sat at a café table with Alberto Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet — was a staying power that his compeers didn’t share. “He was part of a tiny, tiny sliver — Andre Emmerich, Stephen Hahn, Klaus Perls,
Eugene V. Thaw, Ernst Beyeler,” says the New York-based prints and drawings dealer David Tunick, citing giants of the trade from Krugier’s generation, who are all either retired or deceased. And none of them showed (or sold) the range of work that he did: Picasso, Cézanne, Klee, Giacometti and other modern greats; an elite selection of contemporaries, including the Chinese painter Zao Wou-Ki; plus antiquities and tribal art once consigned to the category “primitive.” (You didn’t find installations at his galleries, or video or much photography.)" Before the close of the exhibition, he "died at age 80.., the art world lost the final remaining member of the generation of postwar connoisseur-dealers." Krugier amassed an important private collection of impressionist and modern art works from which were auctioned off by Christies in New York City in 2013 and by Sotheby's in London in 2014. ==References==