Dorothy Cross
"Dorothy Cross' work ranges from object to opera: working with sculpture, photography and video. The themes of her work have dealt with memory and inheritance, sexuality and desire, and the position of the human in nature. Her work came to mainstream public attention with her solo show Ebb at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin in 1988. This was followed by several major shows: Powerhouse at the ICA Philadelphia (1991) and Even, at Arnolfini, Bristol, England (1996). These shows were made up of large sculptures that often contained found objects both from her family and from studios such as the Pigeonhouse power station in Dublin Bay where she worked for four years in the early 1990s. www.whytes.ie She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and the Istanbul Biennial in 1997 with her Udder series. Her best-known public work is Ghost Ship, where she painted a de- commissioned lightship with phosphorous paint and moored it in Dublin Bay, where it glowed at night for several weeks in the winter of 1999. In 2013 An Post released a stamp celebrating the Ghost Ship. In 2005 a major retrospective of her work was held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dorothy now lives on the coast of north Galway. She is represented by Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Frith Street Gallery, London." www.whytes.ie
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'JELLYFISH PILLOWCASE 2, 2004'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 16 September 2019
- archival print on fabric
- 30 x 39Ύin. (76.20 x 100.97cm)
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'KRAPPS' LAST TAPE I & II (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 18 November 2003
- ink on tinted paper
- 53 by 53cm., 21 by 21in.
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'THREE FIGURES, 1981'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- mixed media on paper
- 76 by 56cm., 30 by 22in.
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'THREE FIGURES'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- mixed media on paper
- 76 by 57cm., 30 by 22.5in.
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'GHOST SHIP II, 2011'
- Price Realised: 1,600
- Sale: 11 December 2024
- luminescent etching; (no. 16 from an edition of 75)
- 14½ x 17Ύin. (36.83 x 45.09cm)
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'FIGURES, 1981'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- pencil, ink, wash, pastel, collage and silver paint on paper
- 75 by 106cm., 29.5 by 41.7 5in.
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'FIGURES'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 17 October 2022
- ink and watercolour
- 8Ό x 5in. (20.96 x 12.70cm)
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![UNTITLED [FIGURES], 1979 by Dorothy Cross sold for 300 at Whyte's Auctions](/images/auction/870/66421.jpg "UNTITLED [FIGURES], 1979 by Dorothy Cross sold for 300 at Whyte's Auctions")
'UNTITLED [FIGURES], 1979'
- Price Realised: 300
- Sale: 17 October 2022
- etching; (no. 2 from an edition of 5)
- 7Ό x 21in. (18.42 x 53.34cm)