Editing René Magritte (section)

==Personal life==
Magritte married Georgette Berger in June 1922. Georgette was the daughter of a butcher in Charleroi, and first met Magritte when she was 13 and he was 15. They met again seven years later in Brussels in 1920<ref name=mattesonbiog>{{cite web|title=René Magritte: This is Not A Biography |url=http://www.mattesonart.com/biography.aspx |publisher=Matteson Art |access-date=2015-09-22}}</ref> and Georgette, who had also studied art, became Magritte's model, muse, and wife.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baldacci |first=Paolo |title=De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus: A Look Into the Invisible |publisher=Mandragora |year=2010 |isbn=9788874611522 |pages=11}}</ref>

In 1936, Magritte's marriage became troubled when he met a young performance artist, [[Sheila Legge]], and began an affair with her. Magritte arranged for his friend, Paul Colinet, to entertain and distract Georgette, but this led to an affair between Georgette and Colinet. Magritte and his wife did not reconcile until 1940.<ref>{{cite web|title=René Magritte: This is Not A Biography (1939-1940 Marital Difficulties- World War II Approaches)|url=http://www.mattesonart.com/biography.aspx |publisher=Matteson Art |access-date=2015-09-22}}</ref>

Magritte died of [[pancreatic cancer]] on 15 August 1967, aged 68, and was interred in [[Schaerbeek Cemetery]], [[Evere]], Brussels.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Danchev |first1=Alex |title=Magritte: A Life |last2=Whitfield |first2=Sarah |publisher=Knopf Doubleday |year=2021 |isbn=9780307908193 |pages=351}}</ref>