Lot 82: Dorothy Cross, (b.1956) KRAPPS' LAST TAPE I & II (A PAIR) signed and dated [1981] lower right; inscribed lower left ink on tinted paper 53 by

Dorothy Cross, (b.1956) KRAPPS' LAST TAPE I & II (A PAIR) signed and dated [1981] lower right; inscribed lower left ink on tinted paper 53 by 53cm., 21 by 21in. Provenance: with the framing label of the David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, on reverse Notes:The second work measures 14 x 14 inches. Krapps Last Tape is the title of a play written in 1958 by Samuel Beckett, in which a man reminisces on his 69th birthday, listening to a tape he made thirty years earlier. The play explores slippages between human memory and the historical record, a theme which Dorothy Cross has continued to address obliquely in her sculptural, installation and video work concerning women in Irish history.