Francis Cugat was an artist whose most famous work was the original 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Biography
Little is known of Cugat other than that he was born in Spain in 1893 and was the older brother of bandleader Xavier Cugat.[1] The Cugat family emigrated to Cuba in 1903.[2] It is also known that at one time, Francis 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.[1]
Resume of Known Work
Celestial Eyes - A painting for the cover of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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