Lettre autographe datée et signée concernant sa peinture et ses livres : "... beaucoup de travail et, sachez-le, essentiellement pictural : - mes tableaux, désormais mon mode d'expression exclusif, depuis bientôt une dizaine d'années !"

Autograph letter signed by the writer Pierre Klossowski addressed, in French, to his Hamburg admirer Ottmar Meisel, dated June 2, 1980, 51 lines written in black ballpoint pen on a recto-verso sheet, envelope included.
Pierre Klossowski emerges from an intense period of artistic production, exclusively pictorial, which has exhausted him: "Forgive my great delay in responding to you: which is explained by a state of extreme fatigue... following much work and, you should know, essentially pictorial: - my paintings, henceforth my exclusive mode of expression, for nearly a decade now! I no longer publish anything, except just a few commentaries relating to this serious mutation."
He also exhibits extensively: "... in Paris, of course, but especially in Belgium, in Italy, in Switzerland. Next year a retrospective of my compositions at the Kunsthalle in Bern. In all these countries, my collectors are not only my former readers, many of them discover in my paintings the atmosphere of my books." and evokes his literary production which almost belongs to another artistic life for him: "My last publications date back to the years 69 and 71: Nietzsche et le cercle vicieux... of which a German translation is to appear... and la Monnaie vivante (Losfeld 71) - theoretical text illustrated with photographic plates. (those quite concrete ones) which already announce the film we made much later in 77 and screened publicly in 79, - on the theme of Roberte ce soir and la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. So overall: return from speculation to specularity, from narration to spectacle."
Pierre Klossowski hopes to see his friend again soon and sends him two of his inscribed works: "No doubt these lines will reach you before the copies of Roberte and du Baphomet that I hasten to return to you inscribed..."