Opening a gate -- Steps toward a small theory of the visible (for Yves) -- Studio talk (for Miquel Barceló) --The Chauvet Cave -- Penelope --The Fayum portraits -- Degas -- Drawing : correspondence with Leon Kossoff -- Vincent -- Michelangelo -- Rembrandt and the body -- A cloth over the mirror -- Brancusi --The River Po -- Giorgio Morandi (for Gianni Celati) -- Pull the other leg, it's got bells on it -- Frida Kahlo --A bed (for Christoph Hänsli) --A man with tousled hair --An apple orchard (an open letter to Raymond Barre, Mayor of Lyon) -- Brushes standing up in jars -- Against the great defeat of the world -- Correspondence with Subcomandante Marcos -- Will it be a likeness? (for Juan Munoz).