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Article: Cottage for sale, might not need painting as the previous owner was Welsh artist Gwen John...(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2006
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Byline: By Rhodri Clark Western Mail
A thatched cottage once owned by Welsh artist Gwen John is on the market for the first time since her brother Augustus bought it for pounds 500.
Yew Tree Cottage, which nestles in Hampshire's New Forest and goes to auction later this week, has changed relatively little since Gwen occupied it in 1927 and still lacks running water in the kitchen.
Despite the cottage's idyllic appearance and location, the introverted artist from Pembrokeshire soon chose to move back to Paris, the city where she had been the ...