"Cabinet"(for Vuillard), 2002, oil/baltic birch, 15"-11" by Marc Salz. Dedicated to Edouard Vuillard. I always liked how Vuillard would paint intimate scenes on dark grounds and build up to colored patterns. I grew up in New York and lived with my family in the sixties on East 76th around the corner from Leo Castelli’s Gallery on 77th. My father Sam Salz was also an art dealer and sold many of Vuillard’s early paintings. My room in our place was facing the back courtyard right across from where Leo Castelli would have parties on his terrace with many of the then rising Pop Art artists(Johns, Rauschenberg etc.). At night the noise from the parties kept me up late. I guess that made me favor the quiet and intimate Vuillards over those loud and blaring Pop artists.