You'd have to be a complete sucker....

[Tanuki]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/bob-ross-first-tv-painting-sale-a-walk-in-the-woods

"Bob Ross’s first TV painting goes on sale for nearly $10m

Minneapolis gallery puts A Walk in the Woods, the first of over 400 paintings Ross produced for The Joy of Painting, up for sale

painting to the people, his works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half hour with little more than a large bristle brush, a putty knife and plenty of encouragement. It is unlikely he would have envisioned one of his works going up for sale for nearly $10m.

Move over Attenborough: why Bob Ross’s art lessons are TV’s ultimate stressbuster
But that is the price a Minneapolis gallery is now asking for A Walk in the Woods, the first of more than 400 paintings Ross produced on-air for his TV series The Joy of Painting.

“It is season one, episode one of what you would call the rookie card for Bob Ross,” Ryan Nelson, who owns the Modern Artifact gallery, said of the work created in the show’s debut, which aired on 11 January 1983."...(more)

[marble falls]

1. Watch who buys it and see what tax write off they are getting when they donate it to someone.

[KS Toronado]

2. Or keep it a few years and doubles his money.

Then using LLCs and off shore accounts to hide the profit and still get a tax write-off.

[moniss]

3. Perhaps a bank that is

friendly to money laundering will handle the whole transaction. Similar to these bogus purchases of real estate, condos etc. for wildly inflated sums just months after some "pal" bought it for market value or less. Friendly bank handles it all, for a fee of course, and then the laundered proceeds get transferred out to secretive Caribbean accounts etc.