This splendid painting pays homage to a still life by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and is one of the most interesting works by this artist from Madrid.

A painter and printmaker, Alcaín started his career in the orbit of , though adapting it with a highly personal style to depict popular everyday objects and cityscapes from Madrid, with sharply defined drawing and flat colours. Later, and in consonance with artists like Juan Genovés (1930) or Equipo Crónica (1967-81), he heightened the critical content of his work, conveying it in a satirical and playful manner.

Cézanne petit-point LXVII is part of a series of oil paintings, silkscreen prints and drawings the artist created using a canvas for petit-point embroidery reproducing the still life by Cézanne Bowl of Fruit, Tablecloth, Glass and Apples. As such, it is a reinterpretation, not of the original piece by the French artist, but of the needlework material Alcaín bought in a haberdashery shop in Plaza de Pontejos in Madrid. In the hands of the artist, that material becomes a source of inspiration. As is customary in his work, in this painting Alcaín outlines the silhouettes and uses flat colours, incorporating the reference to petit-point embroidery, merging the qualities of the Pop object with a traditional handcraft technique.