All or nothing
A WELCOME addition to the mass of Lucian Freud exhibitions currently marking the artist’s centenary (at the National Gallery, Freud Museum, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, the Garden Museum and so on) is one presented at Ordovas on Savile Row, London W1, focusing on his lifelong love of horses.
Apparently, at boarding school in Devon, the young Freud could be found sleeping in the stables during lessons and his earliest surviving work is a horse sculpture created when he was 15. In later life, his love of both animals and gambling—‘I always went all out,’ he said. ‘The thing I liked was risking everything.’ He also always bet in sums of eight, his lucky number—led to various connections and commissions, such as Brig Andrew Parker Bowles, who first met Freud in 1983, when he granted him access to the stables of the Household Cavalry.
Interesting highlights of the loan show include (, 2006), which has never been exhibited before and features Sioux of the Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre where Freud had a temporary studio in 2003–06, and (1982–83), depicting bookmaker Irving Tindler who sat
