Ancient orientalist Art Decò sculpture in odalisque marble
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Imposing sculpture depicting a sensual odalisque entirely sculpted in blue Argentine marble, a masterpiece of Italian Art Deco from the 1930s. Dimensions: Height 81 cm x Length 35 cm x Depth 20 cm Provenance: Italy Period: 1930s of the 20th century The woman immortalized in this work is an odalisque, or a virgin slave with the ambition of being able to become a concubine or bride in menageries of the Ottoman Empire. The word comes from the Turkish "odalık", which means maid, maid (from oda, room). The odalisque was not a concubine of the harem, but she could become one. Odalisques were at the base of the social scale of h