L’Historie Centrale, painted by Magritte

Source photography from Wikipedia

Artist: René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967)

Artwork: L’Historie Centrale

Created: 1928

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 116 x 81 cm

Location: Probably – ?Private Collection or Banque Paribas, Bruxelles, Belgium

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Regina Bertinchamps, Magritte’s mother, committed suicide by throwing herself into the Sambre River on the night of February 24, 1912, after many months of depression. Her body was discovered only a few weeks later.

At the age of only thirteen, René is deeply moved by his mother’s last image – the woman’s face is covered with her shirt.

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Magritte will never talk about his mother’s suicide, but his works are suggestive enough.

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In the last of them he describes death by drowning, in others he presents the body covered by a shroud or characters whose faces remain unseen.(#a1translatetext)