Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters

The first Leprechaun (DOA 68 x 45 in.); the second Obosam Besu (DOA 60 x 43.25 in.); the third Officer (DOA 31 x 20.5 in.); the fourth Jung (DOA 34.25 x 19.5 in.); the fifth Shaolin Dominte (DOA 33 x 20.5 in.); the sixth Expendables (DOA 40.5 x 34 in.); the seventh Desperado (DOA 60 x 41.5 in.) (several holes and tears); the eighth Tough and Deadly (DOA 43 x 35 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 - each with creasing, rubbing, and some pigment loss.