Described by David Sylvester as a 'true pioneer' Musgrave was the first gallerist to show Bridget Riley and was a champion of Art Brut.
[2] The gallery gave Yves Klein his first solo exhibition in London[3], Billy Apple's Apple Sees Red: Live Stills was the first solo pop art exhibition in the UK, and they also presented work by Fluxus artists.
Musgrave promoted eminent Pakistani and Indian artists, including Avinash Chandra, Anwar Jalal Shemza and F N Souza to the British audience.
Musgrave met and married the portrait photographer Ida Kar in Cairo in 1944; they moved to London in the following year.
Previously it was on loan for ten years at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin.