Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait) by Lucian Freud, 1965
(Picture: © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images / photo Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)Lucian Freud is having a moment – though he’s never been out of fashion since his death in 2011. But this year, the centenary of his birth in Berlin in 1922, he is especially centre stage.
There’s an exhibition of his plant portraits (even his plants are invested with character) at the Garden Museum opening next month, a current show about him and his family at the Freud Museum and a small show about Freud and horses at the Ordovas Gallery - though I’d always assumed that his chief relationship with the animals was courtesy of the bookmakers.
