The art walk starts right in front of the 'Tourist', which is housed in the 'Cipierage. This building from 1662, built in Renaissance style, was used as a prison of Sint-Niklaas. Over the years it has been repeatedly restored and it served as a police station, telephone exchange, court of first instance, museum and city library. 
On the other side of the wooden boardwalk are two images of the hand of George Grard. 
The preference of Grard went out to great bronze statues on the subject of the female nude. He was greatly inspired by the classic French statuary art include Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Until the mid-fifties he explained in his sitting, lying and standing figures focus on the full feminine shapes.In 1958, herein is a change in the image "African", which is exhibited at the World Expo 1958 in Brussels. Here he stylize a new image: a slender female figure, elongated and less bulky.

An identical image of the "Seated Woman" is seen in Louvain-la-Neuve on the Place de l'Accueil. 
A similar image you think is true of larger size and dressed in Brussels. It is the Berlaimontlaan between the National Bank of Belgium and Saint Gudula.

GRARD George (1901- 1984) 
George Grard, born in 1901, following his studies at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Tournai in drawing, sculpture and painting. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest figurative Belgian sculptors. He won in 1930 the "Reuben Award 'from the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels. Grard founded in 1931 with a few artist friends, including his good friend Paul Delvaux, the School of St. Idesbald. The sculptor achieves in 1935 the "Prix de la Roseraie 'in the context of the Brussels World Fair. In 1948 he won the Prix du Hainaut "and the" Prix de la Picard Académie Libre de Belgique. In 1967 he became a member of the Class of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium where he won the five-yearly prize in 1970 in recognition of his artistic career. George Grardmuseum in St. Idesbald houses the plaster models and outside the domain Ten Bogaerde, the bronzes.