Our British Standards BS4800 00-A-13 Storm Grey – Greyfriar Aerosol Spray Paint is professionally mixed by our team of technical experts using the very best ingredients. With over 35 years of industry experience, we provide the UK with innovative and high-quality spray-painting products. When it comes to quality and price, Your Spray Paints is always the best choice. 7 Magritte Museum and other collections.Description British Standards BS4800 00-A-13 Storm Grey – Greyfriar Aerosol Spray Paint.René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, in 1898.

He was the oldest son of Léopold Magritte, a tailor and textile merchant, and Régina ( née Bertinchamps), who was a milliner before she got married. Little is known about Magritte's early life. On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. This was not her first attempt at taking her own life she had made many over a number of years, driving her husband Léopold to lock her into her bedroom. One day she escaped, and was missing for days. Her body was later discovered a mile or so down the nearby river.Īccording to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse. Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several of Magritte's paintings in 1927–1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants. Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style.

During 1916–1918, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring. He also took classes at the Académie Royale from the painter and poster designer Gisbert Combaz. The paintings he produced during 1918–1924 were influenced by Futurism and by the figurative Cubism of Metzinger.

Įrom December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg. In 1922, Magritte married Georgette Berger, whom he had met as a child in 1913. Also during 1922, the poet Marcel Lecomte showed Magritte a reproduction of Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love (painted in 1914).

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