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René Magritte

In 1912, Régina Bertinchamp, Magritte’s mother, committed suicide by drowning herself in the Sambre River. The night of her suicide, the Magrittes followed Bertinchamp’s footprints to the river, where they found her dead with her nightgown wrapped around her face. Some critics point out that several of the subjects in Magritte’s paintings are veiled in white sheets as a reference to his mother’s suicide.

Magritte’s work is what got me interested in art, particularly surrealism.