The program featured Bob Ross filling a canvas in less than 30 minutes while giving viewers step-by-step instructions|Jeff Nyveen|CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
“A Walk in the Woods,” the first painting Bob Ross made on The Joy of Painting TV show, is on sale for $9.8 million more than four decades after it was painted.
The program ran for 11 seasons on PBS.
The price quoted by an auction house in Minneapolis makes it the most expensive and historically resonant Ross piece to ever be sold.
The painter has undergone a cultural resurrection, thanks to the internet, which has allowed the younger generation to discover him.
Ross’s YouTube channel has 635 videos and 6.35 million subscribers.