Bruno Schulz, The Procession (from The Book of Idolatry, meant as illustrations for Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs), 1920/1924

Seated from left to right: Rene Crevel, Max Ernst, Dostoyevsky, Theodore Fraenkel, Jean Paulhan, Benjamin Peret, Johannes T. Baargeld, Robert Desnos

Standing: Philippe Soupault, Jean Arp, Max Morise, Raphael, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Andre Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, Gala Eluard

Max Ernst, A Friend's Reunion, 1922

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina, 1621

Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1545-1554

Thomas Moran, The Angry Sea, 1911

Otto Dix, Der Krieg, 1929–1932

Jorge Méndez Blake, El Castillo (a.k.a. The Impact of a Book), 2007

John Martin, Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, c.1823–27

James Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875

José Villegas Cordero, Siesta, 1874

Paul Delvaux, La ville Inquiète, 1941

Ivan Aivazovsky, Battle of Çesme at Night, 1848

José Benlliure y Gil, La barca de Caront, 1919

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The (Great) Tower of Babel, 1563

"1944 was the year in which the plans of Nazi Germany had the greatest impact on the Nussbaum family. Philipp and Rahel Nussbaum were killed at Auschwitz in February. In July, Nussbaum and his wife were found hiding in an attic by German armed forces. They were arrested, sent to the Mechelen transit camp and given the numbers XXVI/284 and XXVI/285. On August 2 they arrived at Auschwitz, and a week later Felix was murdered at the age of 39. On September 3, Nussbaum’s brother was sent to Auschwitz, and on September 6 his sister-in-law and niece were also murdered there. In December, his brother – the last of the family – died from exhaustion in the camp at Stutthof. Within one year, the entire Nussbaum family had been murdered."

Felix Nussbaum, Triumph of Death, 1944

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Chatelaine (The Tocsin), 1895

Wyndham Lewis, A Reading of Ovid (Tyros), 1920

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, c1500

Jan van Eyck, Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych, 1440 – 1441

Detail of the right panel of the diptych.

Bridget Riley, Hesitate, 1964