AGNES DENES (B. 1931)
Pascal's Perfect Probability Pyramid & The People Paradox - The Predicament
signed and dated 'Agnes Denes '80' (lower right)
India ink on silk vellum
34 x 41³⁄₄ in. (86.4 × 106 cm.)
Executed in 1980

Acquired directly from the artist by the late owner, 1997.

J. E. Weiss, Agnes Denes, Kunstforum, no. 281, 2022, pp. 182-183, (illustrated).
F. Richard, ed., I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here: Site Specific Art at The New School, New York, 2019, endpapers (detail illustrated).
A. D'Souza, "In Formation," in F. Richard, ed., I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here: Site Specific Art at The New School, New York, 2019, pp. 241-245 (illustrated).
E. Enderby, ed., Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, New York, 2019.
A. Denes, "The Stations of the Pyramids," in E. Enderby, ed., Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, New York, 2019, pp. 120-121 and 136-137 (illustrated).
R. Gladman, "There are Over Sixteen Thousand People in This Drawing: A Poetic Response to the Work of Agnes Denes," in E. Enderby, ed., Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, New York, 2019, pp. 242-244.
F. Derieux, ed., Agnes Denes: Work 1969-2013, Reims, 2016, p. 157 (illustrated).
A. Denes, "Pascal's Perfect Probability Pyramid & The People Paradox-The Predicament," in F. Derieux, ed., Agnes Denes: Work 1969-2013, Reims, 2016, p. 155.
Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid, Long Island City, New York, 2015, p. 26 (illustrated).
A. Denes, "The Pyramids," in The Human Argument: The Writings of Agnes Denes, Putnam, Connecticut, 2008, pp. 115-116.
M. D. Cohen, "The Paradox of Eco-Logic: The Art of Agnes Denes," in Agnes Denes: Art for the Third Millennium, Budapest, 2008, pp. 29-31 (illustrated).
T. McEvilley, Art in America, November 2004.
R. Barreto, "Sculptural Conceptualism," Sculpture, May 1999.
J. Hartz, ed., Agnes Denes, Ithaca, New York, 1992 (illustrated on the cover).
A. Denes, "The Pyramids," in J. Hartz, ed., Agnes Denes, Ithaca, New York, 1992, pp. 32-34.
R. Hobbs, "Agnes Denes's Environmental Projects and Installations: Sowing New Concepts," in J. Hartz, ed., Agnes Denes, Ithaca, New York, 1992, pp. 54-55 and 164 (illustrated).
D. Kuspit, "Paradox Perfected: Agnes Denes's Pyramids," in J. Hartz, ed., Agnes Denes, Ithaca, New York, 1992, p. 172.

New York, The Shed, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, 2019–2020.
Budapest, Ludwig Museum, Agnes Denes: Art for the Third Millenium., 2008.
Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Agnes Denes: A Retrospective, 1992.