Address : 28 Sandycove Avenue West, Sandycove, Co Dublin Price : €1,575,000 Agent : Crawford's
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Imogen Stuart believed that the secret to a long life was having a leisurely breakfast. She enjoyed hers sitting on a balcony just off her upstairs bedroom, in a conservatory nearly the full height of her house. It worked: Stuart, a sculptor whose works can be seen in churches and public spaces all over Ireland, died aged 96 just over 1½ years ago.
Born in Berlin, the German artist met her future husband, Maud Gonne’s grandson and fellow sculptor Ian Stuart, while training in Bavaria. They moved to Ireland in 1949, living first in Laragh, Co Wicklow, and later in Sandycove, Co Dublin.
She moved there in 1966, first to a house on the seafront and from the early 1970s to a house around the corner, on Sandycove Avenue West.
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