Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters

The first UB 40 (DOA 56.5 x 44 in.) (several holes and patches); the second Agata 2 (DOA 58 x 41 in.); the third The Ghosts and the Stars (DOA 56.5 x 39.5 in.); the fourth Informant (DOA 57.5 x 43 in.); the fifth Testimonies of Pain (DOA 57 x 45 in.); the sixth Girls Collection 2 (DOA 56.5 x 44.5 in.); the seventh Double Cross (DOA 52.25 x 50.5 in.); the eighth Batman (DOA 61.5 x 42.5 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.

Fair condition - each with creasing, rubbing, and pigment loss.