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