"Ping", 1994-97, oil/wood/ping pong ball, 14"-15" by Marc Salz. We in America play games like football, baseball and basketball while the Chinese play ping pong. Different games, different balls, different sizes.

"Pong", 1994-97, oil/wood/ping pong ball, 12.5"-12.5".

My father Sam Salz and Marc Chagall in the early sixties at Chagall's home in the South of France. My father had a gallery In Cologne, Germany in the twenties where he showed and sold Chagall's paintings. One of the them was titled "Birthday" which is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For more on my father and Marc Chagall, you may go to posts made on March 22, 2011 and December 14, 2009.

"Birthday"by Marc  Chagall. Here is a link to the painting from the provenance department at MoMA:  http://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/provenance_object.php?object_id=79360
My father also had Chagall's "Over Vitebsk" which is now also in the Museum: http://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/provenance_object.php?object_id=79370

"Deluge"(sixteen), "Emergence", 2011 by Marc Salz, oil/gessoed ragboard, 21"-17".  From the "Deluge" series. A deluge can be environmental, biblical or personal. In a deluge, all the small details are overwhelmed by water(color).

"Deluge"(eighteen), "Star Gazers", 2011, oil/gessoed ragboard, 21"-17".

"Deluge"(fifteen), 2011, watercolor/gouache, 17.5"-14".