Jonas Wood - French Open Four sells for 896,000 dollars
Published on 08/29/2026 at 14:30 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Jonas Wood is back in market view with French Open Four, a 2012 painting from his tennis-court series. According to Sotheby's lot page, the work sold as lot 619 on May 15, 2026, with an estimate of 400,000-600,000 USD.Sotheby's result page
The hammer on the court
The Sotheby's page lists the work as French Open Four, executed in 2012, in oil and acrylic on linen. It also gives the work's size as 62 by 50 1/8 inches, or 157.5 by 127.3 cm.
The lot closed in Sotheby's Contemporary Day Auction on May 15, 2026. That places Wood's tennis pictures once again inside the 6-figure market tier collectors know from his recent sales history.
Why the series still matters
Wood began the tennis-court series in 2011, and the format remains one of his clearest visual signatures. The paintings flatten live sport into ordered color fields, then fold in nets, signage and court geometry.
Juxtapoz described the 2026 Gagosian Beverly Hills show Jonas Wood Holds Court as Wood's tenth exhibition with the gallery and its first in Los Angeles. The gallery showed new court paintings through April 25, 2026, extending the series into a fresh institutional and commercial circuit.Juxtapoz report
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How Jonas Wood works
Wood's practice centers on painting, but it constantly borrows from print, sports imagery and domestic still life. The Broader collection profile includes works such as Children's Garden, Jungle Kitchen and several Matisse Pot paintings.
That range helps explain why his market remains active across different formats. Works from the tennis series sit next to interiors and plant studies, but the serial structure holds the practice together.
What comes next for Jonas Wood
Jonas Wood currently has no announced date in the 30-day window around August 29, 2026.
Jonas Wood at a glance
- Artist: Jonas Wood
- Medium / Genre: Painting (contemporary, serial abstraction)
- Born: 1977, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Place(s) of practice: Los Angeles
- Active since: 2000s
- Key work groups: tennis-court paintings, Matisse Pot, interiors, plant studies
- Current/last exhibition: Jonas Wood Holds Court - Gagosian Beverly Hills - through April 25, 2026
- Major collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Broad, the Guggenheim Museum
- Next date: currently no announced date in the 30-day window
Frequently asked questions about Jonas Wood
Where was Jonas Wood on view most recently?
His most recent cited show here was Jonas Wood Holds Court at Gagosian Beverly Hills, on view through April 25, 2026.
What did Jonas Wood's French Open Four sell for?
Sotheby's lists the work at 896,000 USD in its Contemporary Day Auction result for lot 619 on May 15, 2026.
What does Jonas Wood paint most often?
His best-known groups include tennis courts, interiors, plants and Matisse Pot images, all of which recur across his painting practice.
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