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Sylvia Sleigh, The Turkish Bath, 1973
The Turkish Bath (1973), a similarly gender-reversed version of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's painting of the same name, depicts a group of artists and art critics, including her husband, Lawrence Alloway. Alloway reclines in the conventional pose of an odalisque. She carefully painted individual body hairs. Sleigh painted more than thirty works that feature her husband as a subject. She often used her husband and friends as models because they were essential to her.