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Lot 364
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Cyborg (DOA 58.5 x 42 in.); the second Rasa (DOA 56 x 45 in.); the third Sister Streetfighter (DOA 38.25 x 29 in.); the fourth The 18 Bronze Men (DOA 44.25 x 34 in.); the fifth Navy Seals (DOA 40.5 x 34 in.) (tear to edge); the sixth Cross Mission (DOA 41.5 x 32 in.); the seventh Dune Warriors (DOA 38 x 29 in.); the eighth Wild Panther (DOA 41.5 x 29 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 - the first two with significant pigment loss; all with creasing, rubbing, and some pigment loss.