This later became a theme in many of Magritte’s paintings in the 1920’s, portraying people with cloth covering their faces. As she was pulled from the water, her dress covered her face. According to legend, 13 year old Magritte was there when they retrieved the body from the river. One day, she escaped, and was found down a nearby river dead, having drowned herself. Magritte’s mother was a suicidal woman, which led her husband, Magritte’s father, to lock her up in her room. A Belgian surrealist painter, Rene Magritte’s witty and thought-provoking paintings sought to have viewers question their perceptions of reality, and become hypersensitive to the world around them.
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