London’s Public Art: Horse and Rider by Elisabeth Frink

Standing on Bond Street is a sculpture of a man riding a horse that used to be somewhere else, but in 2018 they rode here from their original home a few streets away.The sculpture dates from 1974/5 and was commissioned as a piece of public art by Trafalgar House for an office development on the corner of Piccadilly and Dover Street.  The artist was Dame Elisabeth Frink. Her Times obituary in 1993 noted the three essential themes in her work as “the nature of Man; the ‘horseness&