odalisque

Once again, she used henna to cover everything from the walls, curtains and sheets to the bodies and diaphanous garments of her 'Odalisques' with layers and layers of calligraphic text, concealing their bare skin.

Velvet is an impractical idea, a dream of lounging like a kittenish odalisque, and we are not in a cultural moment built for repose.

Essaydi produces elaborately staged photographs in series using the Orientalist tropes of the veil, the odalisque, and the harem.

Throughout art history, there is a long tradition of male painters using female models for their portraits--including Henri Matisse, as discussed in Najwa Ali's essay "Matisse / Odalisque / Modernity," and Egon Schiele, who appears in Zsuzsa Takacs's poem "On Vision." In doing so, painters both fetishize and immortalize the disincarnate subjects on their canvases.

During her stay, she danced the Odalisque variation from Le Corsaire and a Paquita variation in showcase performances.

Matisse's portrait Odalisque au fauteuil noir sold for GBP 15.83m / $23.79m/ EUR 20.99m surpassing its high estimate of GBP 12m.

Henri Matisse's 'Odalisque au fauteuil noir' has a pre-sale estimate of [pounds sterling]9 million to [pounds sterling]12 million ($14.08 million to $18.77 million) and will be one of the highlights of the Sotheby's London Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale, which will be held on February 3, 2015.

The Arabian dance with its halfnaked male slaves and their sinuous odalisque (Delia Matthews) are haunting to watch and the house was silenced in this beautiful sequence.

The Odalisque Au Fauteuil Noir by Henri Matisse has gone on view at Sotheby's London galleries and will go under the hammer in February.

Sotheby's gallery assistant Freddi Privite adjusts Odalisque Au Fauteuil Noir by Matisse

"We do have one Matisse in our collection, an odalisque, one of his harem girls from the 1920s and 30s, and that will be our object of the month in February and I'll do a talk on it.