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This rare Bob Ross painting could be yours — for close to $10 million

The late pop culture icon once said he painted over 30,000 works of art in his lifetime, but it's still rare for an authenticated Ross piece to come on the market let alone one with this much history.
A screenshot from the premiere of <em>The Joy of Painting</em> shows the painter Bob Ross with the work, A Walk in the Woods, which is up for sale.

A painting from the very first episode of Bob Ross's "The Joy of Painting" could be yours, but not for cheap.

Titled A Walk in the Woods, the piece is listed at $9.85 million and could be the most expensive and historically resonant Ross piece to ever be sold.

The work depicts a meandering stone path, a cerulean pond and a handful of luminescent trees — all elements that were painted in under 30 minutes during

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