Blue-green continuous lines form layered pyramid and concentric spiral shapes on cream paper.

Agnes Denes

Isometric Systems in Istropic Space—the Pyramid

1975

Not on view

10 works in the collection
5 exhibitions
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/60160

Classification
Prints

Medium
Color etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 22 3/8 × 29 1/8 in. (56.8 × 74 cm) Plate: 17 5/8 × 23 3/4 in. (44.8 × 60.3 cm)

Accession number
2018.179.1

Edition
6/30

Publication
Printed and published by A.I.R. Gallery

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Agnes Denes

API
artworks/60160

Part of a series:
A.I.R. Print Portfolio
19 works

Large cream sheet of paper with faint concentric oval stains and a rough torn top edge.
Rows of small delicate tree sketches arranged in a neat grid on white paper.
Two overlapping stylized maple leaves in gray and red with a dotted halftone texture.
Multiple grayscale prints show repeated circular tube patterns and a textured oval shape on paper.
Delicate pink ruffled underwear laid flat showing gathered elastic and soft folds.
A large wrinkled gray cloth laid flat with subtle folds and frayed edges.
Dense vertical black lines form stacked horizontal bands on a white square background.
A large dark circle sits at the center of swirling white and gray concentric rings.
Large beige paper with scattered specks and faint marks surrounded by a decorative red-arrow border.
A person crouches inside a glowing circle wearing a spiky headpiece of radiating strips.

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