Without title. Color lithography. Signed in pencil 'Maxime Van De Woestijne' and numbered 32/150. On paper with dry stamp 'Original screen Belgium'. In frame. Dimensions: 540 x 440 cm (880 x 685 cm) Maxime Van de Woestyne was a descendant of a prominent artist family. His father Gustave Van de Woestyne was an important artist from the first Latem School, who brought Flemish visual arts to an international top level around the turn of the last century. His brother, the novelist and poet Karel Van de Woestyne, was one of the editors of the authoritative literary magazine Van Nu en Straks, the Flemish answer to the Dutch eighties. Maxime Van de Woestyne fell under the spell of surrealist painting in his youth, which had a world-class representative in Belgium with René Magritte. Surrealism strives for a realistic depiction of an unreal world. In addition to dream images and nightmarish scenes, surrealist painters also reflected on the relationship between the depicted and real reality. The best-known example is Magritte's La Trahison des Images, better known as Ceci n'est pas une pipe.