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Summary
Object
Paul Gauguin
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Oviri
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| Title |
Oviri
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sculpture
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| Description |
English:
Paul Gauguin, 1894,
Oviri (Sauvage)
, partially glazed stoneware (grès, céramique, terre cuite), 75 x 19 x 27 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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
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| Date | 1894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
terracotta
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| Dimensions |
height: 75 cm (29.5 in)
; width: 19 cm (7.4 in)
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| Accession number |
OAO 1114
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Musée d'Orsay
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Musée d'Orsay artwork ID
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19409
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Photograph
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English:
Paul Gauguin, Oviri (Sauvage) (1894). Partially glazed stoneware, 75 × 19 × 27 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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| Source | Coldcreation photographed this sculpture by Paul Gauguin at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 17 April 2013 |
| Author | Alex Mittelmann, aka, Coldcreation |
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