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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