EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 18 © 2017 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

41 FACING PAGE: 'New Year…Old Life', 1911. Colour illustration for the magazine Multicolour . Though a new year began, it left behind the same problems: dictatorship and taxes. TOP LEFT: 'Lujuría Vencida Por El Dolor' '(Luxury Defeated By Pain'), 1917. Illustration for a poem by Alfonsi Storni, drawn during Cabral’s stay in Argentina. TOP RIGHT: 'Winter', cover of Revista Popular , 1917. Sent to Argentina in 1916 as the cultural attach é to the Mexican embassy, Cabral worked for various magazines such as this one. We can see the influence of Art Nouveau beginning to show in this elegant work. different ballets he saw), theatre and music. He discovered the Art Nouveau movement with artists such as Gustav Klimt, and especially AlphonseMucha whose commercial posters adorned the city. Mucha’s use of line drawings mingling with his own logos and calligraphy would be of a great influence to the young Mexican artist who had never seen something like that before. Aside of this cultural shock, Cabral didmanage to sell some of his drawings and cartoons to local magazines such as La Vie Parisienne , Le Rire , and La Bayonette. However, Paris also brought two major events into his life: a lack of money and his first love. Though almost penniless, Cabral met a French girl and fell in love with her. The relationship escalated when the girl became pregnant, and Cabral had to decide whether he stayed in France with her and tried to make a living there or go back to Mexico and then send for her. A friend told him to remain in Paris with his first love, while another said to leave, for love would only go downhill from there. It was decided he’d do it the Mexican way. A flip of the coin would decide his fate: heads he’d stay, tails he’d leave the country. Tails came down and Cabral packed his bags and left! However, Isidro Fabela who, as Minister Plenipotentiary of the