Lot Essay
This sculpture depicts Hector, the ill-fated son of Priam, King of Troy, with his wife Andromache. From Homer's Iliad onward, the couple was emblematic of noble but doomed love.
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Ettore e Andromaca
Details
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Ettore e Andromaca
stamped with signature and numbered 'G. de Chirico 6/8' (on the top of the base), and stamped with foundry mark 'FONDERIA D'ARTE TESCONI' (on the side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 99 in. (251 cm.)
Length: 51 in. (129.6 cm.)
Width: 35¾ in. (90.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1940; this bronze version cast by the estate of the artist
Ettore e Andromaca
stamped with signature and numbered 'G. de Chirico 6/8' (on the top of the base), and stamped with foundry mark 'FONDERIA D'ARTE TESCONI' (on the side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 99 in. (251 cm.)
Length: 51 in. (129.6 cm.)
Width: 35¾ in. (90.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1940; this bronze version cast by the estate of the artist
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Acquired from the above, by the present owner, 1992.
Acquired from the above, by the present owner, 1992.
Literature
C.B. Sakraischik, Catalogo Generale Giorgio de Chirico, opera dal 1931 al 1950, Milan, 1987, vol. VIII, no. 719 (another cast illustrated).
G. dalla Chiesa, De Chirico Scultore, Milan, 1988, p. 105, no. 6 (small bronze version illustrated, p. 53).
M. Calvesi and M. Ursino, ed., De Chirico: The New Metaphysics, Rome, 1996, no. 30 (another cast illustrated).
G. dalla Chiesa, De Chirico Scultore, Milan, 1988, p. 105, no. 6 (small bronze version illustrated, p. 53).
M. Calvesi and M. Ursino, ed., De Chirico: The New Metaphysics, Rome, 1996, no. 30 (another cast illustrated).