Bob Ross’s First On-Camera Painting On Sale For $10 Million.
Written by Jesse on September 15, 2023
That’s a lot of happy little trees.
Modern Artifact, an art gallery in Minneapolis, currently owns the first painting that Bob Ross painted on the very first episode of The Joy Of Painting and they’re saying it can be yours for a cool $9.85 Million.
Now, they’re not expecting anyone to buy it at that price but they’d certainly entertain offers in the seven figures. And there’s plans in the works to take the painting out on tour.
According to The Art Newspaper, the paintings that were created on the popular PBS show are actually quite rare:
Most of the ones he did on “The Joy of Painting” are in storage, and the company that controls his intellectual property doesn’t plan on selling them.
