Oviri (Savage in Tahitian) is a ceramic sculpture created from partially glazed stoneware by the French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) in the winter of 1894/95. The work depicts the Goddess Oviri a Tahitian deity of death and mourning whose name translates as savage or wild.
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