Twentieth-Century Dreams

"For Peellaert, though, the Rolling Stones were the most louche band of all. He painted them holding court at the Ad Lib club; he recreated the food fight at the launch of their Beggars Banquet album; he portrayed them in Gestapo uniforms surrounded by pre-pubescent girls; and he anticipated Keith Richards's cameo in the film Pirates of the Caribbean–At World's End by 35 years when he depicted the guitarist and Mick Jagger as buccaneers dancing on a coffin. 'Whose coffin is that?' the Stones singer had asked Peellaert pointedly when they met in Germany in 1973. 'I replied: "I don't know, Mick",' recalled Peellaert. 'He knew very well it was supposed to be Brian Jones.'"

Pierre Perrone in The Independent writes an obit for artist Guy Peellaert.