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Lot 352
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Vishwasghaat (DOA 41.5 x 32 in.); the second Prophet of Darkness (DOA 58 x 45 in.); the third Predator (DOA 39.25 x 26 in.) (with later selvedge); the fourth OM (DOA 37 x 24 in.); the fifth Never Say Die (DOA 34 x 21.5 in.); the sixth Lone Wolf McQuade (DOA 35 x 21.5 in.); the seventh Jaal (DOA 32.75 x 25 in.); the eighth Kiss of the Dragon (DOA 34 x 22.5 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 pigment loss.