Claude VERLINDE (1927-2020). "Le titularisé". Pencil drawing signed lower right and titled on back. Sight: Height. 25.5 cm - Width 19.5 cm Note: French painter and illustrator belonging to the Fantastic Realism movement, in which he developed a meticulous, dreamlike universe charged with symbolism. In certain respects close to Art Brut, his work blends technical precision with imaginative freedom. Verlinde exhibited at the Werner Berne Foundation, which promotes artists working at the frontiers of the real and the marvellous. He moved to Vallauris, where he worked as a potter's decorator in the mornings and a painter in the afternoons. It was here that he met Robert Tatin, whose powerful plastic expression found an echo in his own research, before detaching himself completely and painting according to his own convictions. Some of his paintings were selected to appear in several films and to illustrate books, notably in the Actes Sud collection. He also illustrates works such as "Les Fables de la Fontaine" and "Pantagruel" by Rabelais. He is well known in French museums such as the Musée de St-Etienne, the Musée Départemental de l'Oise in Beauvais and the Musée Daubigny in Auvers sur Oise, as well as in Switzerland at the Werner Foundation in Berne.