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Lot 22
Vintage Ghana Movie Poster, King Kong
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Hand painted in colors on a repurposed flour sack, 1980s-1990s, signed by the artist "Papa Warsti," further inscribed "Makosa Video Nima," unframed.

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.

53.5 x 41 in.

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.

Abrading to surface.