Actual Bob Ross Paintings For Sale

a framed painting of a white snow covered mountain with a lake in front of it, and a clearing between two thickets of evergreen trees in the foreground, painted by bob ross in 1981, and selling at bonhams in 2025
Bob Ross, An Alpine Lake Under A Pink & Blue Sky, 1981, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in., selling at Bonhams

Granted, I’ve never looked, but I have never seen an actual Bob Ross painting for sale. I thought they were all locked up in some corporate vault. Well, there are two on the loose, and now they’re being auctioned at Bonhams. This one has that iconic palette knife mountain flanked by happy trees; the other one’s asymmetrical, and snowy, with a cabin.

Oh wow, there are actually five at Bonhams in two different sales. The two above are from a private collection. Three other paintings—two from Ross’s TV show, and one from a book—are being sold by the company with proceeds to benefit American Public Television.