In Flanders Fields

Original artwork by André Romijn. Portrait in oil and cold wax of a pensive young woman holding a poppy, against a disturbed backgroud of green and touches of poppy-red. The title of this artwork relates to the famous poem written by the Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in 1915. Later this poem became the inspiration for other poets and the poppy became initially an international symbol of remembrance of the fallen soldiers of WW I.