Jonas Wood: C.M.Z. House on M.V. with Ptolemy
Made in 2021, Jonas Wood’s etching C.M.Z. House on M.V. with Ptolemy depicts a cat standing on a path that passes through a wildflower meadow in front of a house. The lushly detailed image is related to the artist’s 2021 oil-and-acrylic painting of the same title. Employing repeated mark making and patterning to develop its composition, Wood made the print using a soft-ground technique, in which a soft, sticky ground allows the trace of the artist’s hand to be directly recorded on the plate’s surface before being etched.Once the soft-ground plate was complete, aquatint was added to the print to introduce subtle background tones.
Sixty percent of the net proceeds from sales of this print will be donated to CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), a crisis response organization that brings immediate relief and recovery to underserved communities across the globe, including in Ukraine, Haiti, India, Pakistan, and throughout the United States.
Artist: Jonas Wood
Producer: Pace Editions Inc., New York
Date: 2021
Medium: Soft-ground etching and aquatint on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper
Dimensions: Unframed: 36 1/8 × 28 inches (91.8 × 71.1 cm); Framed: 41 5/8 × 33 3/8 × 2 inches (105.7 × 84.8 × 5.1 cm)
Edition: AP 2/20 + edition of 35
Signed: Signed, numbered, and dated on recto
Framed: Sold framed
