(1) you do not have to learn to paint an odalisque like Matisse(2) But so gaudy a style made her look like a pampered odalisque rather than the mother of the future king.(3) In 1992 it closed, and now it's full of clove smoke and odalisques .(4) Fantasies of decadent odalisques can be dismissed, the harem was essentially the domain of the first wife and a power base for women.
