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Lot 377
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Traitor's Heart (41 x 31.75 in.); the second Ram Aur Shyam (40 x 36 in.); the third To The Death (41.5 x 32 in.); the fourth Outrage (40.25 x 34.25 in.); the fifth Clash of the Titans (63 x 46 in.) (with patch repairs to fabric); the sixth Dragon from Shaolin (38.5 x 31.5 in.); the seventh She Shoots Straight (35 x 31 in.) (with applied binding); the eighth Lucky Seven (33.5 x 20.5 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.

Good to fair condition - creasing, rubbing, and some paint loss to each.