Sade / Surreal (2001) – Various
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Found the excellent German non-fiction book titled Sade / Surreal. Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus in Text und Bild. It is a 2001 book on Sade published by Tobia Bezzola, Michael Pfister, Stefan Zweifel with text by Michel Delon, Ursula Pia Jauch, Tobia Bezzola, Jacques Mayer and Stefan Zweifel.

Porte de sortie du parc des plaisirs, de la chasse du Prince
One of the many illustrations that grace the book above, image sourced here.

Why is it excellent. Lots of illustrations. I will give the list of all the work I was not familiar with:

• French photographer Eli Lotar’s Les abattoirs de La Villette (1929)
• French Visionary architect Jean Jacques Lequeu’s Le Dieu Priape and Trois images du sexe féminin and some illustrations of his use of sexual symbolism in architecture.
• Spanish painter Francisco de Goya’s Cannibales dépeçant leurs victimes and a painting of a woman about to have her throat cut.
• Illustrations for Sade’s novels by French painter and illustrator Claude Bornet.
• Work by French painter and engraver Jean-Baptiste Tierce
• A portrait of French writer and contemporary of Sade Marie-Dorothée de Rousset
• Images of French artist Jean-Jacques Lebel 1960s happening 120 minutes dédiées au divin Marquis at the Festival de la libre expression. Lebel seems to have been the Otto Mühl of France during that particular era.
• Very transgressive photography by French photographer Charles François Jeandel ^{[Google gallery]} and Boing Boing link here.
• Works by German Weimar period artist Rudolf Schlichter ^{[Google gallery]}
• A sculpture by French ‘medical artist’ André Pierre Pinson, La Femme assise which I was familiar with through the cover illustration of Rachilde’s novel Monsieur Vénus.
• An illustration by all-time favourite Hans Bellmer for Georges Bataille’s Solar Anus. With a few exceptions I’ve always liked his drawings better than the dolls.
• Work by Czech painter, poet, editor, photographer, and graphic artist Jind?ich Štyrský ^{[Google gallery]}
• Work by Romanian painter Victor Brauner. ^{[Google gallery]}
• Work by Danis painter Wilhelm Freddie
• And the 1938 L’Ultrameuble by Swiss painter Kurt Seligmann, a stool supported by three stockinged mannikins’ legs in high-heel shoes.

See also: Sade – surrealism