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Lot 388
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Monster (DOA 54.5 x 45 in.) (extensive wear); the second Who's Next (DOA 52 x 45 in.); the third Terminator 2 (DOA 59.5 x 41 in.); the fourth Kickboxer (DOA 59 x 50 in.) (several small holes to center); the fifth Cyborg (DOA 58 x 45 in.); the sixth Above the Law (DOA 51.5 x 46 in.) (several holes to lower third of fabric); the seventh Trigon Fire (DOA 42 x 26.5 in.); the eighth Daava (DOA 32 x 22 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.

Fair to good condition - each with creasing, rubbing, and pigment loss.