| Rabinyan presents us with a world in which Persian odalisques lie wistfully, like tantalising fruit, where a certain lyricism pervades the air. |
| Bony, bare and unclothed, these models are individualized, specific women, not generic odalisques. |
| Fantasies of decadent odalisques can be dismissed, the harem was essentially the domain of the first wife and a power base for women. |
| In 1992 it closed, and now it's full of clove smoke and odalisques. |
| He has sewn up ever so many odalisques in sacks and tilted them into the Nile. |
| Russell's and Ferris's odalisques were not the only representations of Oriental women. |
