... Régina Bertinchamp - Magritte's mother, committed suicide by drowning herself in the Sambre River. When the Magrittes found her dead body, her face had been concealed underneath her nightgown. Again we see Magritte's paintings relate to his past, as several of the subjects in his paintings are veiled in which sheets; as a reference to his mother's suicide. A year later the family moved to Charleroi, where Magritte later met his future wife on a carousel at the town fair, Georgette Berger. However, the two did not meet again until a chance meeting in Brussels years later. In 1914 Magritte asks his fathers permission to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, and enrolls as a pupil there. Four years later the remaining Magritte family also to moved to Brussels, and soon after, there was a new member of their family. In 1922, Magritte and Georgette ran into each ...

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