What is The Meaning Behind The Lovers By Magritte?

Exploring the world beneath the famous painting and its successors (and predecessor)

Jess the Avocado
The Collector
Published in
5 min readJul 10, 2022

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René Magritte, The Lovers, 1928, the painting resides at MoMA, NY

Water and cloth. A woman walks to the Sambre River for the last time. Soon after, Magritte’s mother will be found dead by suicide, her face covered by her white gown. René was only 13.

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