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A beautiful lavender odalisque or shimmering squidlike creature sleeps naked, her head tilts back, blonde hair flowing, cheeks flush, oblivious, transported to another dimension. nymag.com

Nor is this some idealised view of the harem, of pearly-skinned odalisques in marble baths. www.independent.co.uk

It also showed the left arm of the odalisque is shorter than the right. en.wikipedia.org

In art history, the title and horizontal shape refers to the odalisque, a reclining female slave often shown on her side with her back to the viewer. blogs.vancouversun.com

Museum poster is in part shocking because of its juxtaposition of the eroticized female odalisque body, and the large, snarling gorilla head. en.wikipedia.org

His frequent orientalist topics of later paintings, such as odalisques, can be traced to this period. en.wikipedia.org

Her pose is reminiscent of harem scenes and odalisque. en.wikipedia.org

The woman lies across him, an odalisque with legs and arms in a delicately tangled flutter. en.wikipedia.org

The gentlemen who wish to buy an odalisque or a wife, make their offers. en.wikipedia.org

By the eighteenth century the term odalisque referred to the eroticized artistic genre in which a nominally eastern woman lies on her side on display for the spectator. en.wikipedia.org

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