Celestial Eyes
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Celestial Eyes is a 1924 Art Deco painting by Spanish painter Francis Cugat. It is preserved in the Graphic Arts Collection at Princeton University Library.
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The painter Francis Cugat, photographed in 1917.
First draft for the cover of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
A draft by Cugat; although it almost appears as definitive, with the large celestial eyes already in the foreground, the background appears barren and desolate; it seems to depict the "Valley of Ashes" of the second chapter.
Flapper
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Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore knee-length skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain
Celestial Eyes
…contemporary Jazz Age, one of the most celebrated works of American literature. Celestial Eyes depicts a lightly delineated woman's face, garbed in a flapper's turban. The sultry eyes and mouth are depicted vividly, suspended in a blue night sky over the Coney Island amusement park and the lights of New York…
Actress Louise Brooks (1927)
A flapper on a ship (1929)
Violet Romer in a flapper dress c. 1915
An advertisement for the 1920 silent film comedy The Flapper, with Olive Thomas, before the look of the flapper had started to coalesce.