Originally published at: Bob Ross's painting from the first episode of his show is for sale | Boing Boing
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Provenance counts for a lot in the art sales world.
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“Meh, I could paint that.”
“Well duh, that was the point of the show.”
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they show bob here at 11:30 pm on weeknights. soothing, so soothing.
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I suspect Bob would be disgusted at that amount of money, unless it was being dedicated to education, the arts, or happy little trees.
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I am GENUINELY impressed that this is not available as an NFT.
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Most of the streaming services have a 24/7 Bob Ross channel.
When I can’t sleep I put on Bob Ross or How It’s Made or Andy Griffith.
It usually backfires though because I stay awake watching Bob to see how he goes from a blank canvas to a mountain scene and if I’m lucky he shows his baby squirrel Peapod.
And here he is with a few different animals.
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I have often wondered why visual artists seem to give up all rights to their work upon sale while almost every other artist I can think of controls rights. They could sell the object but keep the rights to the image, no? Then every time a work is sold, X percent would go to the artist or their designate.
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Give it time…
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Even without droit de suite, the artist retains copyright on the work. Ownership of the physical work of art does not give you the right to reproduce it.
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TIL! Thanks.
I was thinking that contractually, the object could be sold outright, AND a license to possess the image granted until a change of ownership occurs. Then a new license issued to the new owner for $. And so on.
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