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Papaver rhoeas — Flanders Field
Louis Bertin · 1919
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 87 × 120 cm
Bertin had served at Ypres. He returned to paint the poppies that had grown over the disturbed earth of the battlefield. The painting makes no direct reference to the war. The poppies are simply poppies — brilliant, transient, blooming in disturbed ground.
Rights & provenance
- Rights basis
- human original
- Copyright
- Louis Bertin
- Licence
- all rights reserved
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