(Volos, Greece 1888–1978 Rome)
Ettore uccide Patroclo già ferito a morte, 1967, signed G. de Chirico, tempera on cardboard, 30 x 40 cm, framed, (AR)

Photo certificate: Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, archive no. 011/03/16 OT, 31 March 2016

Provenance:
Galleria Gissi, Turin (stamp on the reverse)
Galleria d’arte moderna Farsetti (stamp on the reverse and certificate available)
B. Nardini Collection, Florence Sant’Erasmo Club d’Arte, Milan (label and stamp on the reverse)
Setti Collection, Modena (stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Cosenza, Galleria d’Arte Provinciale “Santa Chiara”, La collezione d’arte contemporanea Paolo Setti: la vera pandora di tutte le virtù celesti. Le stampe d’arte del museo “Arte on”, 12 December 2008–31 January 2009, exh. cat. p. 37 with ill.

Literature:
Omero, Iliade, translated by Salvatore Quasimodo and illustrated by Giorgio de Chirico, Nardini, Florence 1968, p. 109; R. Carrieri, L. Cavallo, Giorgio De Chirico. L’immagine dell’infinito, Galleria Medea, Milan, 1971, p. 21 with ill.;
Bolaffi. Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna Italiana no. 18, Mondadori, Milan 1982, p. 225 with ill.

But Patroclus, overcome by the stroke of the god and by the spear, drew back into the throng of his comrades, avoiding fate. But Hector, when he beheld great-souled Patroclus drawing back, smitten with the sharp bronze, came nigh him through the ranks, and smote him with a thrust of his spear in the nethermost belly, and drave the bronze clean through; and he fell with a thud, and sorely grieved the host of the Achaeans.
(Homer, Iliad, Book 16)