Giovanni De Simone (1930-1991) - Flower pot - Ceramic - glass

Giovanni De Simone (1930-1991) ceramic vase decorated with hand-painted fish motifs.

Dimensions: approx. 14 x 22 x 19 cm.

The vase is handmade and painted with the bright colors typical of the De Simone workshop and on the back bears the workshop’s signature and the model number.

In good condition; some glaze running defects (glaze drips).

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Giovanni De Simone (1930–1991) was an Italian ceramist. Trained in Faenza, where he attended the Art Institute for ceramics, in Palermo in the fifties he opened the workshop «Maioliche d'Arte De Simone», where he devoted himself to producing utilitarian ceramics and decorative wall and furnishing tiles in traditional style and hand-painted. He became, over the years, one of the leading representatives of Sicilian ceramics. His evolution as an artist led him, in a later stage, to create works inspired by primitivism but characterized by a burlesque and festive vein, with overglaze decorations in vibrant colors, often with relief, as objects for furnishing use and maiolica sculptures in both traditional and modern style. In 2019, at the Orti botanici in Palermo, a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him.