Esther Parada (1938-2005), signed – dedicated photograph – silver gelatin b x w. 14 x 10.5 inches.

Dedicated “For John, from Taxalaco Bolivia (1965) with love Esther Parada (6/13/81)”

It is unclear if this is a 1965 print or later print but before 1981.

Same image in Museum of Fine Arts Houston. “Tarabuco Indian, Bolivia”. Similar series in collection of Minneapolis Institute of Art.  Parada's work is in many American museums including the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and many more.

Good overall condition. One abrasion to lower right corner.  See images.

Provenance:  John Schact, from his estate.

John Schacht (1938–2009) was a self-trained American artist. His drawings, paintings, assemblages, experimental writing, and ritualistic performances explore a broad range of aesthetic and political concerns, including sexual complexity, esoteric spiritualism, abstract ornamentation and erotic desire.

Born in Chicago, Schacht moved frequently as a child of divorced parents. He remarked that he decided to be an artist at thirteen after seeing every oil painting at his disposal. Because he was never formally trained as an artist and exhibited infrequently during his lifetime, Schacht was a peripheral figure in Chicago’s art scene, neither fully inside nor outside of its institutions. He was, however, actively involved in Chicago’s burgeoning gay community and its leather fetish subculture. Over the course of his life he lived in Chicago, North Florida, Indianapolis, Phoenix, and rural Iowa, where he relocated permanently in the 1980s. Schacht died in Leon, Iowa, in 2009.

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