The Ignorant Fairy by René Magritte, 1950.

This is one of the 1950’s frescoes that Magritte painted. The other, The Enchanted Realm is in the casino Konkke-Le-Zut. This one is in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi, Belgium.

The woman is Anne-Marie Crowett, daughter of Adrienne Crowet. The daughter became something of a muse for Magritte.

Michal Draguet writes:

Magritte creates, as Breton wanted, a distance between the object and the name. The reflective logic is decomposed and the picture overflows the apparent reality. The Fee Ignorante creates darkness extinguishing the light. It establishes the movement that at first sight refers to esotericism. The passage from the conventional lighting in the light that extinguishes determines the invisible forms in the loneliness of light. The person constitutes promise of new knowledge, exempted from the compatibilities of society and dedicated in the mystery that maintains his poetic substance.