Heidi Ellison

Heidi Ellison, a long-time Paris resident, is a freelance journalist specializing in art, travel and literature. Her articles have been published in dozens of international publications, and she has contributed to a number of guidebooks on Paris and France.

Degas and the Nude

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Off with the Tutu,Into the Boudoir Degas’ ”Deux Baigneuses sur l’Herbe” (1886-90). © RMN (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is, of course, best known for his depictions of dancers, but it turns out that his ballerinas often took off … Read More

Cima da Conegliano

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

A Venetian Master Rediscovered in All His Glory ”Madonna with Child,” by Cima da Conegliano. © Archives Alinari, Florence, Dist. Service Presse RMN–Grand Palais/Daniela Camilli In the late 15th century, Giovanni Battista Cima (1459-1517) came out of nowhere to make … Read More

Gerhard Richter: Panorama

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Ode to Joy From Greatest Living Artist Gerhard Richter’s “Yellow-Green” (1982), © Gerhard Richter, 2012 Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, has been toiling away at his paintings, photographs and installations for 50 years now, but it is only … Read More

Manet: The Man Who Invented Modernity

February 7, 2010 | By Heidi Ellison | Archive

Manet’s “Au Père Lathuille” (1879). © Collection du Musée des Beaux- Arts de Tournai, Belgium “Manet: The Man Who Invented Modernity,” the new exhibition on Edouard Manet (1832-83) at the Musée d’Orsay, does not make much … Favorite