With a text by Jacques Henric, translated by Masashi Ogura.

Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. A prolific late in life artist who was internationally acclaimed for his writings and translations on Sadeian erotic expression, Klossowski is a pivotal yet underrepresented figure in the history of 20th-century art, often overshadowed by his earlier literary work and his younger brother, Balthus. Primarily working with pencil and charcoal, the laborious drawings he produced reference a variety of subjects, including Greek mythology, Sadean decadence, medieval fantasy and sexualized scenarios involving a recurring female figure, Roberte. These imagined scenes depict a perplexing and intriguing array of mature, familiar and fantastical situations involving cartoonish human figures set in fictitious landscapes that uniquely relate back to the dystopic realities he creates.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

The dialogue-driven “Divertimento,” Roberte et Gulliver, features the character of Roberte, delivering her, under the watchful eyes of the schoolboys, to Gulliver’s schemes. The letter to Michel Butor that follows goes beyond a simple discussion about books and writing. Through its reflection on the “simulacrum,” it helps us understand the mysterious link that unites writing and drawing in Klossowski’s work.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Artist, novelist and philosopher Pierre Klossowski’s 1970 essay La Monnaie vivante (Living Currency), first published in France in an edition with erotic photographs made in collaboration with Pierre Zucca.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition at Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, 3 October–2 December, 1990; Musée Cantini, Marseilles, 14 December, 1990–27 January, 1991; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 21 March–7 May, 1991; Sala Parpalló, Valencia, June – July, 1991.

Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. A prolific late in life artist who was internationally acclaimed for his writings and translations on Sadeian erotic expression, Klossowski is a pivotal yet underrepresented figure in the history of 20th-century art, often overshadowed by his earlier literary work and his younger brother, Balthus. Primarily working with pencil and charcoal, the laborious drawings he produced reference a variety of subjects, including Greek mythology, Sadean decadence, medieval fantasy and sexualized scenarios involving a recurring female figure, Roberte. These imagined scenes depict a perplexing and intriguing array of mature, familiar and fantastical situations involving cartoonish human figures set in fictitious landscapes that uniquely relate back to the dystopic realities he creates.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Artist, novelist and philosopher Pierre Klossowski’s 1970 essay La Monnaie vivante (Living Currency), first published in France in an edition with erotic photographs made in collaboration with Pierre Zucca.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Pierre Klossowski: Les Barres Parallèles et autres situations de Roberte at Galerie André François Petit, Paris, November–December, 1978.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.