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- The original cover image was actually a painting by artist Francis Cugat, titled “Celestial Eyes.” It was painted in 1924, one year before the release of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald liked the painting so much that he actually wrote it into the book, and gave Cugat the commission for the dust jacket before the book was finished.
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Jul 4, 2022 · During this time, his publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, sought an artist to make the cover for the upcoming book. They found a little-known artist originally from Barcelona named Francis Cugat (1893–1981), who painted poster portraits for opera and theater stars.
Oct 19, 2017 · Francis Cugat’s iconic painting of a disembodied face floating above the lights of New York is perhaps the most famous and celebrated book cover in all of American literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s publisher, Maxwell Perkins, seemed to understand the significance of the image even before the novel was published, declaring it “a ...
Francis Cugat’s striking cover illustration ‘Celestial Eyes’, commissioned for the 1925 edition of The Great Gatsby, is probably one of the most iconic images in literary design history.
The original cover image was actually a painting by artist Francis Cugat, titled “Celestial Eyes.” It was painted in 1924, one year before the release of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald liked the painting so much that he actually wrote it into the book, and gave Cugat the commission for the dust jacket before the book was finished.
Francis Cugat's cover for the 1925 first edition of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Public domain image. With nothing but an incomplete manuscript for inspiration, Cugat began picking out details from Fitzgerald's would-be American classic. And did he get it right.
For many years, Cugat was a designer in Hollywood for Douglas Fairbanks and had a 1942 show in New York, well after his famous work for The Great Gatsby. He was credited for technical work on 68 Hollywood films.
May 14, 2013 · Although there have been many covers since its first publication in 1925, today, none are more suited to The Great Gatsby than the celestial eyes of Francis Cugat, so perfectly do...