Les Yeux du Ciel (Eyes of the Sky) is a roughly rectangular column of marble carved in irregular, stepped, angular wedges, with a linear design incised at center. Sklavos was known for two abstract sculptural styles—one heavily carved, sometimes with a webbed or network effect; the other, a more delicate low relief, which characterizes Les Yeux du Ciel. In 1960 the artist invented a technique of carving stone with a blowtorch, calling it “télésculpture” and patenting it with the French government. The method reveals a stone’s grain and core and allows for quick carving of hard stones such as rose porphyry and gray granite.

Sklavos trained for six years (1950–56) at the Athens School of Fine Arts in his native Greece, where he won first prize in a national sculpture competition that enabled him to study at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon meeting Sklavos at a sculpture symposium in Montreal during the summer of 1964, Ralph E. Ogden, Storm King’s co-founder, commissioned the sculptor to produce a work for the collection, which Sklavos sculpted on-site at the Art Center in October 1964.