Seen While Reading……
This is one of the most recognisable book covers ever released. Designed in 1925 and the book’s first cover, it was painted by Francis Cugat and titled “Celestial Eyes.” I love it, always have, and hopefully will one day find a secondhand copy of it. However….
I didn’t know this little bit of trivia - in each iris, there is a floating, naked woman.
Why? No explanation has ever been discovered!
(via F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – Francis Cugat (1925))







