Bellflower Posted 4 November , 2006 Share Posted 4 November , 2006 A few years ago we stayed at the Ariane and I seem to recall a painting/print of the Menin gate at midnight with a ghost battalion around it . Can't remember what it was called or who it was by, but I'd like to get a copy. Can anyone help ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurel Sercu Posted 4 November , 2006 Share Posted 4 November , 2006 Bellflower, Googling with "Menin Gate at Midnight" certainly produced a dozen or more hits. (Though many (most ? all ?) were postcards. Aurel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 4 November , 2006 Share Posted 4 November , 2006 I'm pretty sure you can buy a copy of this painting (It's by Will Longstaff) as a poster at the In Flanders Fields Museum at Ypres. Another source is this website which sells prints of the picture. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres1418 Posted 4 November , 2006 Share Posted 4 November , 2006 I have had this for years and was one of the first things unpacked and put up in my new house, from afar it looks like stalks of corn until you get up close then you see the ghosts, a very moving painting, the origional is in Oz. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellflower Posted 4 November , 2006 Author Share Posted 4 November , 2006 Thanks for the replies everyone , but the one I saw wasn't the Longstaff picture. I recall that it sort of looked down on the gate and the arch was right in the centre of the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurel Sercu Posted 5 November , 2006 Share Posted 5 November , 2006 I promise that next time I am at the Ariane ... But maybe other pals will be there before me ? Aurel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellflower Posted 5 November , 2006 Author Share Posted 5 November , 2006 I promise that next time I am at the Ariane ... But maybe other pals will be there before me ? Aurel Thanks.I'd like to get a print if I can. It's one of those pictures that stays in the mind............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 6 November , 2006 Share Posted 6 November , 2006 Longstaff created a mini-genre: he produced several in the style of Menin Gate, including Vimy, and the Cenotaph. I have decent reproductions of them all. The original is in the Australian War Memorial: awe-inspiring. Thousand of copies were sold in Oz after the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevew Posted 6 November , 2006 Share Posted 6 November , 2006 This can be bought in many places. As Tom said, IFF sell it, so do The Ariane and I think the Grenadier book shop sells it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 26 November , 2006 Share Posted 26 November , 2006 I think this one is Longstaff's. I was and still am very much drawn to it. Seem to think the poem attached somehow went with it. Not sure, but hope to be corrected.! Susan. Man_at_Arms_poem.doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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