The first painting Bob Ross created on his iconic PBS how 'The Joy of Painting' show is up for sale — with an eye-popping price tag just under $10 million.
Ross produced more than 400 paintings, each completed in around half an hour, throughout the run of his show — and now the first one can be yours for just under 10 million bucks. The Minneapolis gallery Modern Artifact has put "A Walk in the Woods" up for sale,The gallery has collected and sold Ross paintings in the past, but the affable artist's creations, never taken to be masterpieces, haven't ever sold for a price like this.
Ross hosted the show from that episode through 1994, a year before his death at 52. "A Walk in the Woods" was originally sold just months after Ross painted it, to raise funds for his local PBS affiliate. A station volunteer bought the piece and hung it in their home for 39 years before getting in touch with Nelson to sell it last year. NelsonAccording to a publicist, Megan Hoffman, Nelson is willing to part with the painting but isn't looking to move it quickly.
. "There's no secret to this," Ross said in the episode, which you can watch above. "Anybody can paint."
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