Complex sentence: Gauguin asked that "Oviri" be placed on his grave, which seems to indicate that he saw the figure as his "alter ego" and the fox as changeable in its gender as he was (according to Mathews) and thus symbolic of dangerous sexuality.
Split into simpler sentences: Gauguin asked that "Oviri" be placed on his grave, which seems to indicate that he saw the figure as his "alter ego". According to Mathews, he saw the fox as changeable in its gender as he was, and thus symbolic of dangerous sexuality.