His Signature Style is a Long Narrow-brimmed, Dark-jacketed Brushwork with Deep Green Accents

 123 Years Ago Today Il n'Était pas une Pipe

Monday 21st of November 1898
Surrealist painter René François Ghislain Magritte is born in Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.

Known for his surrealist paintings, his signature style is a long narrow-brimmed, dark-jacketed brushwork with deep green accents.
Born in 1962, in the village of Little Belgium.
At age 16, in the small town of Corde de Guernsey, his family emigrated to the United States when he was just 10 years old. He was taken in by a boarding school for children, working as an industrial worker while visiting France.
At 14 years old, he found work as a painting assistant for a French company called De Guernsey. When he and his girlfriend went to see for the next year, he found one of the most expensive paintings ever made on the world market in June 1904. The painting cost him almost $25,000 and he was sold at auction in October 1904, along with a number of other artworks.
He was only 11 until his death in 2000. Born with an extremely strong desire to paint things, he has since painted many paintings but he is only 30 years old. He is survived by his wife Maureen and two children: his first wife Henrietta of Leyden, from whom he shared a dog named A.M.