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Lot 371
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Floating Feelings (DOA 53 x 42 in.); the second Talons of the Eagle (DOA 40 x 30.5 in.) (later selvedge to edges); the third Kick Boxer (DOA 33 x 20 in.); the fourth Kabul Express (DOA 28 x 28.5 in.); the fifth Child's Play 2 (DOA 51 x 47 in.); the sixth Jaani Dushman (DOA 41 x 34.5 in.); the seventh My Sweet Child's (DOA 51.5 x 46 in.); the eighth Deep Rising (DOA 60.5 x 41 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.