Janick "Jan" Krugier (12 May 1928 in Radom, Poland – 16 November 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish born Swiss dealer in modern art most known for his relationship to the works of Pablo Picasso and a survivor of the Holocaust.
At home, the dealer remembered, there were “bad Impressionists, lots of Utrillos.”[2] During World War II he served as a member of the Polish Resistance, was captured and then sent to Auschwitz.
[5][better source needed] "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.
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.
"[2] 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[7] and by Sotheby's in London in 2014.