Named for the Belgian painter René Magritte Lessines (1898-1967), well known for his magical surrealistic style. In the 1930s composed his Magritte dictionary, placing ordinary objects, such as apples, stones and pipes, in a surrealistic context, thereby aiming to surprise and alienate. The philosophy of his work may best be summarized as “creating the unknown with known things”. Citation written by K. Leterme at the request of the discoverer.