During the ten years that followed the assassination of President Madero – the Decada de Dolores (the Decade of Sorrow) – all three of Mexico’s legendary champions were assassinated. The last was the retired Pancho Villa, machine-gunned in an ambush in 1923.

      Villa’s death was still years in the future as Diego rendered pencil sketches using Cubist fractured planes. He created Toledo landscapes with sliced hillsides Cézannesque trees and jumbled houses. At last, he painted Man with a Cigarette, a Cubist portrait, and surrendered his talent to the Cubists’ faceted world.