Six Vintage Ghana Movie Posters

The first for Sleep Warkers (61.75 x 43 in.); the second for Kyeiwaa (53.5 x 46 in.) (with some holes); the third for Woman in Love (52.5 x 46 in.) (holes in both top corners); the fourth for Tumi 2 (60.5 x 43 in.); the fifth for Decoy (61.5 x 43.5 in.); and the sixth for Detention (42.5 x 33 in.); all are hand painted in colors on a repurposed flour sack, unstretched.

This lot to be sold on day 1, Wednesday, October 3 (Lots 1-948)

Auction by order of the United States Bankruptcy Courts of the Eastern District of North Carolina. All items sold as-is. No returns. All sales final.

From the Complete and Important Collection of NOA Living, Raleigh, North Carolina

Beginning in the early 1980s with the availability of VCRs, TVs, and generators, a mobile movie industry boomed in Ghana. Entrepreneurs commissioned local artists to paint eye-catching and colorful advertising for the films. This artistic movement proliferated until the early 1990s when these unique and creative works were replaced by mass produced printed posters.

Good to fair condition - all with creasing and some rubbing and paint loss.