Louis Cane paints the Meninas. Following in the footsteps of Velasquez and Picasso, he tackles this row of posing, scowling girls. Imagine the scandal – painting like in the old days! – and the risk, that of the museum-series, where a collage of styles, from the most polished to the most loose, would hold the whole legend of art. “Velazquez and De Kooning, Manet and Picasso would rub shoulders politely: this would be to recapitulate history under the pretext of reclaiming it, to have no other subject than the “return to the subject after abstraction”.

Philippe Dagen, Le Quotidien de Paris, 3 mai 1984
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