Celestial Eyes is a painting made in 1924 by Spanish painter Francis Cugat and preserved at the Princeton University Library for the Grafic Arts Collection.
Celestial Eyes
The painter Francis Cugat, photographed in 1917.
First draft for the cover of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Another example of a draft realised by Cugat; although it appears as almost definitive, with the large celestial eyes already in the foreground, the background appears barren and desolate; it seems to depict the "Valley of Ashes" described in the second chapter.
Francis Cugat, also known as Francisco Coradal-Cougat, was a painter and graphic designer whose most famous work was Celestial Eyes, the original 1925 dust jacket for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. From the mid-1940s he was a Technicolor consultant on more than 60 Hollywood films.
Francis Cugat in 1917
Cugat's illustration for the dust jacket of The Great Gatsby (1925), Celestial Eyes