Bob Ross paintings easily surpass estimated sale prices at auction, marking milestone for the late artist

Money does grow on his “happy little trees!”

A pair of Bob Ross paintings sold for double and triple their estimated selling prices at a recent auction — shattering sales records for the mild-mannered late artist.

Two oil-on-canvas works from the “Joy of Painting” star, both depicting serene mountain and lake scenes, raked in some serious green at Bonhams’ American Art Online sale, which ended on Aug. 7.

“Lake Below Snow-Capped Peaks and Cloudy Sky” fetched $114,800 — double what it was estimated to sell for — and “Lake Below Snow-Covered Mountains and Clear Sky” took in $95,750, triple its anticipated price tag.

“I can tell you that Bob would have been quite shy to learn that his paintings are now selling at six figures. He was never really that interested in his finished works, Bob was more fascinated with the process of painting and sharing that with other people,” Joan Kowalski, president of Bob Ross Inc., told The Post.

“Truthfully, I can still hear him saying something like, ‘You don’t want my paintings, you want to create your own and hang them proudly on your wall.’”

The record-breaking paintings, which both date to 1990-1991, caught the eye of five or six bidders during the Madison Avenue auction house’s sale, which started on July 28.

The pricey pieces managed to dethrone Ross’ previous auction high-water mark, set at $55,000 on July 25 for the sale of another landscape, “Snow-capped barn and trees behind a post and wire fence,” at Eldred’s Auction Gallery in Dennis, Massachusetts.

Ross, who died in 1995 at the age of 52, became a household name with a cult-like following for hosting the PBS series “The Joy of Painting.”

On the instructional series, which aired over 400 episodes from 1983 to 1994, the Florida native, who had a net worth of $1 million, taught viewers the art of landscape painting.

The paintings he created for the show are owned by Bob Ross Inc., and rarely hit the auction block, as per Barnebys.

Over the last year, only seven have been purchased at auction for between $30,000 and $55,000, according to Artnet.

The most recent ones — which were owned by private collectors in Florida and then passed down to other sellers — mark a milestone for Ross as the first that have gotten close to or exceeded $100,000.