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Lot 302
Four Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Pit Fighter (DOA 32 x 22 in.); the second Marcus "D" Millionaire (DOA 60 x 42 in.); the third Blood Money (DOA 53.5 x 50.5 in.); the fourth Captive (DOA 52.5 x 46 in.) (several holes); all are hand painted in colors on a repurposed flour sack, the first two are on stretchers and the second two are 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.