eight-vintage-ghana-movie-posters
Lot 350
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Raw Deal (DOA 50.5 x 46 in.) (some holes along lower third of sheet); the second Agbako (DOA 64 x 43 in.); the third Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (DOA 58 x 44.5 in.); the fourth Warriors of Satan (DOA 64 x 44 in.); the fifth Counterforce (DOA 41.5 x 33.5 in.) (some tears and loss); the sixth Cat of Darkness (DOA 65 x 45.5 in.); the seventh Python (DOA 58.5 x 41 in.); the eighth Canibal Women (DOA 60 x 44 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 pigment loss to each.