Vintage Estate Fresh Desimone Hand Painted Ceramic Lidded Trinket Box Italy

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Vintage Estate Fresh Desimone Hand Painted Ceramic Lidded Trinket Box Italy:
$39.95

This is where the hunt ends for the missing piece to your Giovanni DeSimone pottery collection. This estate fresh trinket box is one of the most inspired pottery art pieces we have come across. What an amazing artist. This piece portrays the vividness of the ever shining Mediterranean sun on the lives and lifestyles in the land of Sicily. Done through the imagery of lines and colors that characterize the myth, era and enchantment of this precious land. Such an incredible display of creativity, tradition and poetry coming together in perfect harmony.

Giovanni De Simone was a celebrated Italian ceramic artist born 1930. He studied at the School of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy, where he was taught by Angel Biancini and Anselmo Bucci. Previously he had attended school at Liceo Tasso in Rome. He worked from his studio in Palermo where he used oven firing to make the lead free colours permanent on his Majolica ceramics. His work is characterised by intense colors and his drawing style is often compared to Picasso’s. Many claim that he studied under Picasso, although there is no historical evidence to support this. And his work is only barely reminiscent of Picasso\'s. DeSimone\'s art is celebrated as his own. During World War II his mother and father were imprisoned in a concentration camp. He was responsible for caring for his sister during this time. Eventually he and his sister joined their mother in the concentration camp. Following the war the family was repatriated and reunited in Rome. But soon the family moved into Romagna, a territory in central Italy and home of his mother. The choice of Romagna proved decisive for the life of the young Giovanni, he enrolled in famed Instituto d’Arte per la Ceramica founded by in Faenza. He was fascinated. He had found his home. He opened his studio in 1947 at the tender age of 17.

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