The theme of oviri is death, savagery, wildness. Oviri stands over a dead she-wolf, while crushing the life out of her cub. As gauguin wrote to odilon redon, it is a matter of "life in death". From the back, oviri looks like auguste rodin's balzac, a sort of menhir symbolizing the gush of creativity. Source. Object Type: sculpture. Date: 1894. Dimensions: height: 75 cm (29.5 in) ; width: 19 cm (7.4 in). Medium: terracotta. Collection: Musée d'Orsay. Paul Gauguin, 1894, Oviri (Sauvage), partially glazed stoneware, 75 x 19 x 27 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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