Louise GROUX (XX-XXIth centuries). The walking bear. Canvas signed lower right. Height : 132 cm - Width : 162 cm Note : Louise Groux has developed a body of work in which the presence of animals, particularly bears, becomes a veritable allegory of the fragility of living things. Influenced by the chromatic depth of Rothko and his vision of painting, but also by Damien Hirst and Peter Doig, she composes pictorial spaces where the infinitely subjective figurative rubs shoulders with brutal brushstrokes caressing abstraction. Her approach, somewhere between intimate expression and animal art, questions the relationship between humanity and nature.