| 41. | One enthusiastic critic compared Heade's sensual giant magnolias to odalisques-- women slaves or concubines in a harem.
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| 42. | The latter reflected the contemporary interest in the theme of the harem and the " odalisque " in Orientalism.
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| 43. | Petipa's dance for three odalisques in " Le Corsaire " remains a gem because it is danced right.
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| 44. | Often they were, like his Odalisque, evocative of oriental themes, which had been a favorite topic of Romantic painters.
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| 45. | He also came to rely heavily on his assistants, or " odalisques, " a bevy of archetypal California coeds.
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| 46. | That kind of beauty was also communicated in the dancing of Yan Chen, Michele Wiles and Anna Liceica in the Odalisque trio.
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| 47. | A Christ child as languid as an Odalisque lounges on a ledge in the foreground : He looks perilously close to rolling off.
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| 48. | Many of the female subjects in the Odalisque paintings were modeled after Matisse's main model at the time : Henriette Darricarri�re.
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| 49. | 1954 : New York's Knoedler Gallery records its purchase of " Odalisque " from the Drouant David Gallery in Paris.
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| 50. | The addition of stereotypical Orientalist motifs, such as the " narghile pipe ", charcoal burner, and the odalisques pose.
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