
Basketball
10 works

Wood Pot, 2015
Gouche and colored pencil on paper Signed on verso
18 x 12 1/2 in 45.7 x 31.8 cm
This intimate work presents one of Wood's signature ceramic vessels rendered in the artist's distinctive graphic style. Executed in gouache and colored pencil, the composition captures a decorative pot with bold geometric patterns and vivid color blocking. Wood's precise linework and careful layering of media create a striking balance between flatness and dimensionality, while his attention to ornamental detail reveals his ongoing fascination with domestic objects and their decorative potential. The modest scale of the paper adds to the work's immediacy and charm. Created during a prolific period in Wood's career, this piece exemplifies his ability to elevate everyday objects into subjects worthy of sustained artistic attention. The work reflects his broader interest in pattern, color, and the visual language of mid-century design. For collectors, this 2015 work represents an accessible entry point into Wood's celebrated practice, offering the refinement and visual intelligence that have made him one of the most sought-after artists of his generation. Available for purchase — enquire for price and availability.
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Wood Grain Pot with Night Bloom · Jonas Wood · Sotheby's · 2022-10 · $976,722


Jonas Wood
B-ball
2008

Jonas Wood
Birdcage XVI
2011

Jonas Wood
Birdcage XX
2011

Jonas Wood
Computer Drawings
2008

Jonas Wood
Large Bromeliad
2011

Jonas Wood
Striped Orchid
2013

Jonas Wood
Untitled (8) from 8 Pots

Jonas Wood
Untitled (Basketball Wallpaper)
2013

Jonas Wood
Untitled (Basketball)
2015

Jonas Wood
Untitled (black and grey)
2009

Jonas Wood
Untitled (Pot)
2010

Jonas Wood
Untitled (xerox)
2009
Jonas Wood has emerged as one of the most consequential contemporary painters of his generation, commanding extraordinary auction results that confirm his position within the upper echelons of the contemporary art market. His landmark achievement came in 2022 when Large Landscape Pot realized $6.2 million at Sotheby's, establishing a new benchmark for the artist and demonstrating sustained institutional and collector confidence. Christie's previously recorded his Interior with Fernand Léger at $4.9 million in 2020, underscoring consistent demand across major auction houses. According to the Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2025, the global art market reached $57.5 billion in 2024, with subsequent data from the 2026 report confirming a return to growth in 2025—conditions that have particularly favored established mid-career artists with museum presence and blue-chip gallery representation.
Guy Hepner has facilitated $1,899,500 in Jonas Wood transactions, positioning the gallery as a primary resource for collectors seeking authenticated original works by this critically acclaimed artist. This transaction volume reflects deep market expertise and established relationships with collectors who recognize Wood's enduring significance.
The Original Works series represents Jonas Wood's most intimate creative output—the drawings, monoprints, and works on paper that reveal his distinctive visual language in its most immediate form. Born in Boston in 1977, Wood earned his BFA from the University of Washington before completing his MFA at Tufts University, establishing the academic foundation for a practice that would attract representation from Gagosian and David Kordansky Gallery. His works now reside in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, confirming institutional recognition at the highest level.
Wood's original works demonstrate his characteristic approach to domestic subjects—basketball iconography, botanical specimens, ceramic vessels, and interior spaces—rendered through a flattened pictorial plane that references both Henri Matisse and David Hockney while remaining distinctly contemporary. These works on paper serve not as preparatory studies but as autonomous artistic statements, each carrying the full weight of Wood's compositional intelligence and chromatic sophistication.
The works comprising this series showcase Wood's command across multiple media and techniques. Computer Drawings (2008) presents ten graphite on paper drawings that achieved $81,250 at auction in September 2018, demonstrating early market recognition for Wood's works on paper. This suite reveals the artist's methodical approach to seriality and his ability to transform quotidian digital imagery into contemplative drawn compositions.
Wood Pot (2015), executed in gouache and colored pencil on paper, realized £726,241 at auction in October 2022, confirming that Wood's unique works on paper command prices approaching his canvas paintings. The ceramic pot motif—recurring throughout Wood's oeuvre—functions as both portrait and still life, the decorative surfaces of the vessels providing opportunities for complex pattern interaction and spatial compression.
The Birdcage monoprints, including Birdcage XVI and Birdcage XX (both 2011), employ silkscreen with colored pencil appliqué, a technique that bridges printmaking and drawing. Each monoprint exists as a unique variant, the hand-applied colored pencil ensuring that no two impressions are identical. These works demonstrate Wood's interest in the decorative tradition while maintaining the graphic clarity that defines his visual signature.
Untitled (8) from 8 Pots, an etching in colors with chine-collé on White Satin paper, achieved £135,095 at auction in October 2023, confirming continued market strength for Wood's editioned works with unique characteristics. The chine-collé technique—adhering thin paper to a heavier support during printing—adds material complexity and chromatic depth.
Untitled (Basketball Wallpaper) (2013) exemplifies Wood's engagement with sports iconography, rendered as a digital print in colors on 212 GSM Wet Strength paper. Basketball imagery has been central to Wood's practice since his earliest mature work, connecting personal biography to broader cultural narratives. Untitled (Basketball) (2015), executed in felt tip marker on paper, offers collectors an opportunity to acquire this signature subject in a spontaneous, direct medium.
Large Bromeliad (2011), a graphite drawing, demonstrates Wood's botanical subjects—the houseplant motif that connects his work to a tradition extending from Dutch still life through contemporary interior painting. These botanical works have proven particularly sought-after as Wood's reputation has grown.
Phillips, Bonhams, Christie's, and Sotheby's have collectively established robust price histories for Jonas Wood's works across all media. The progression from the 2018 result for Computer Drawings through the 2022 and 2023 auction records demonstrates consistent appreciation, with works on paper and unique prints commanding increasingly significant prices as collectors recognize their art historical importance.
Wood's dual representation by Gagosian and David Kordansky Gallery ensures continued exhibition opportunities and institutional placement. His museum presence—MoMA, Whitney, LACMA—provides the scholarly validation that supports long-term market stability. The Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report's confirmation of market growth creates favorable conditions for acquisition.
Guy Hepner in New York offers collectors direct access to authenticated Jonas Wood original works, supported by $1,899,500 in documented transactions. Each acquisition includes comprehensive provenance documentation and condition reporting consistent with major auction house standards. Contact Guy Hepner to discuss available works, pricing, and acquisition strategy for building a significant Jonas Wood collection.

Jonas Wood (b. 1977, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the most commercially significant and critically engaged American painters working today, an artist whose deceptively cheerful canvases of domestic interiors, exotic plants, sports imagery, and portraiture carry a genuine formal intelligence beneath their beguiling surfaces. Wood studied at the University of Washington, where he received his BFA, before completing his MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in collaboration with Tufts University. He has been based in Los Angeles for much of his career, and that city's particular quality of light, its collector culture, and its deep engagement with design and architecture all permeate his work.
Wood paints what he knows and what he loves: the interior of his own home, the ceramics and vessels his wife Shio Kusaka makes, the sprawling sports venues he grew up attending, the exuberant botanical forms of houseplants scaled to monumental proportions. His signature approach — flat planes of high-keyed colour, graphic patterning, compressed pictorial space, motifs nested within motifs — draws knowingly on a range of sources: Matisse's decorative ambitions, Hockney's Los Angeles interiors, the spatial logic of Japanese woodblock printing. The paintings are warm and inviting on first encounter, but their structural decisions repay close looking. The way a patterned textile disrupts the logic of a room, the way a painted reproduction of a work by Léger or Picasso crops and reframes within Wood's own canvas — these are paintings that think as well as enchant.
Among his most sought-after works are the art-within-art interiors: large-format canvases in which recognisable works from art history appear framed on the walls of his domestic spaces, folded into the patchwork of pattern and colour that defines his compositional method. His works on paper in gouache — equally resolved and chromatically rich — have developed a strong and dedicated following. His print and edition output, though more limited in scale than some of his contemporaries, is actively traded. Auction results have confirmed his position at the top tier of his generation: Large Landscape Pot achieved $6,204,750 at Sotheby's in May 2022, while Interior with Fernand Léger realised $4,896,250 at Christie's in November 2020 — figures that reflect sustained demand from a global collector base.
Wood is represented by some of the most prestigious galleries in the world and his institutional profile continues to grow. His work is held in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and LACMA, among other significant institutions. He is among that rare group of mid-career painters whose primary market strength and secondary auction performance are equally robust.
Guy Hepner has developed real expertise in the Jonas Wood market, with experience and inventory spanning paintings, works on paper, and editions. Our gallery at 177 Tenth Avenue, New York is well positioned to advise collectors on acquiring Wood's work or to provide free, confidential valuations for those looking to sell. We work with collectors at all levels and maintain active relationships with buyers across the global market for his work.