Oviri (The Savage) [recto] — Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Oviri (The Savage) [recto]

1894/1895

Dating
Date range
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
woodcut printed in brown on Japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 20.4 × 12.2 cm (8 1/16 × 4 13/16 in.) sheet: 37 × 19 cm (14 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Collection no.
1953.6.248.a
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Paul Gauguin. Oviri (The Savage) [recto]. Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Oviri (The Savage) [recto] — Paul Gauguin. 1894/1895.

Medium: woodcut printed in brown on Japanese paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 20.4 × 12.2 cm (8 1/16 × 4 13/16 in.) sheet: 37 × 19 cm (14 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1953.6.248.a. Rosenwald Collection.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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