William S. Burroughs, ...The Chair of Death is Absurdly Uncomfortable, 1993

Peder Balke, The Tempest, 1862

Currently being exhibited at Tate Modern

Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled

Died this day

The arabic words say "He who took drugs, the intoxication of death made this truth appear". They are a play on The Holy Quran, Surat Qaf, Chapter 50, Verse/Ayah 19 which actually says: "And the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to avoid". By suppressing the last words and adding the "drugs"-prefix, Falero reverses the meaning from announcing death into an ecstatic narcotic-induced apparition.

Luis Ricardo Falero, The Enchantress, 1878

José Clemente Orozco, Gods Of The Modern World - The Epic Of American Civilisation, 1932 - 1934

Austin Osman Spare, Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy, 1913

Salvator Rosa, Witches at their Incantations, c 1646

René Magritte, Not to be Reproduced, 1937

Died this day

Francis Picabia, Craccae, 1928

František Kupka, Le Disque Blanc, 1946

Born this day

William Blake, Satan, c1789

Paul Klee, Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank, 1903

Paradise - A contemporary interpretation of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

Otto Dix, Dedicated to Sadists, 1922

Paul Delvaux, The Sleeping Venus, 1944

Arnold Böcklin, Isle of the Dead, 1883

Albert Joseph Pénot, Départ Pour Le Sabbat , 1910

Francisco Goya, A Scene from El Hechizado por Fuerza (The Forcibly Bewitched), 1798

Joos van Craesbeeck, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1651

Giorgio de Chirico, Bathers on the Beach, 1934