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Lot 360
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Clash of the Warlords (DOA 41 x 31.5 in.); the second Scores to Settle (DOA 72 x 43 in.); the third Aryan (DOA 36.5 x 34 in.) (hole to center and large hole at lower left, later selvedge); the fourth Juaari (DOA 32.75 x 31 in.); the fifth Fatal Flying Guillotine (DOA 33 x 21 in.); the sixth Mr. India (DOA 39 x 32.5 in.); the seventh Collateral Damage (DOA 42.5 x 34 in.); and the eighth Once Upon a Time in Mexico (DOA 40 x 31 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 pigment loss to each.