Hand Painted Italian Ceramic Maritime Plate by Desimone

Hand-painted ceramic dish by Sicilian aristocrat turned artist, Giovanni De Simone. Painted oceanic details with two pirates and a giant squid in De Simone’s signature vibrant colors of yellow, red, orange, pink, green, brown, navy, teal and light blue. This piece’s aesthetic was heavily influenced by Pablo Picasso (whom De Simone greatly admired). It is an amalgam of Italian folk art (simplicity, inaccuracy and crudeness of subject) with modernism in the use of color and shape.
H: 1″ x Diameter 8.25″
Signed De Simone with the model number ’06.’