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Lot 382
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Fifty Fifty (DOA 44.5 x 27 in.); the second No Dead Heroes (DOA 41 x 32.5 in.); the third Wheels of Fire (DOA 39.5 x 28 in.); the fourth Zinabu (DOA 44 x 33.5 in.); the fifth Ayakata (DOA 73 x 44 in.); the sixth Self Defense (DOA 72 x 44 in.); the seventh White Night (DOA 64 x 43.5 in.); the eighth Nuclear Weapon; 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.