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Lot 362
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Chopping Mall (DOA 35.5 x 24 in.) (split to center); the second Last Occult (DOA 58 x 40 in.); the third Hard Boiled (DOA 54 x 49.5 in.); the fourth Sakawa 4 (DOA 56 x 41.5 in.); the fifth Swart Cat (DOA 63 x 44.5 in.); the sixth The Reaping (DOA 59.5 x 42 in.); the seventh The Beastmaster (DOA 60 x 44 in.) (patches to center edges and corners, some tears); the eighth Black Jack (DOA 58 x 42 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 - each with creasing, rubbing, and some pigment loss.