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Galerie Privée · Los Angeles
Contemporary editions and multiples — kept for the love of the objects.
About the galerie ↓About
A house for the contemporary print.
Galerie Potterat is a private galerie of contemporary art in Los Angeles — prints, editions and multiples by Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Shepard Fairey, El Mac, RETNA and Wes Lang, among others. The bias is simple: images worth a second look, made in numbers small enough to matter.
It leans to Pop and its descendants — conceptual, street, post-graffiti — and treats the multiple as a form in its own right. What began as a few framed sheets has expanded into a catalogue kept for the objects rather than the market, each work recorded with its provenance, its edition, and what it is worth today.
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Heritage · Lausanne
The gallery it’s named for.
The name isn’t an affectation. Galerie Potterat was a real gallery at 8 Avenue du Théâtre in Lausanne, run by the dealer Robert Potterat — four generations back in this family — across the middle of the twentieth century, from the 1930s into the 1980s.
It ran for decades, showing painter after painter — sculptors and printmakers too, with Pietro Sarto among them in 1958 and many more before and after. Only a fraction of that program is documented today: the doors closed long ago, and what survives is mostly a handful of exhibition posters held in Swiss archives. The ones below are a sample of the shows, not the whole record. This collection keeps the name in use.
Posters held by the Swiss National Library, the Bibliothèque de Genève, and the Musée Historique Lausanne.
Held privately · the financial ledger is shown only to the collector