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Dina Vierny

French artists' model, singer, art dealer, collector and museum director

Dina Vierny (25 January – 20 January ) was a French artists' model who became a singer, art dealer, collector and museum director. She is known as the model and muse to French sculptor Aristide Maillol.

In , she established the Musée Maillol.

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Biography

Born as Dina Aibinder into a Jewish family in Kishinev, Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova),[1] she moved to France with her family during her childhood.[2][3]

Beginning at age 15, she was Aristide Maillol's muse for ten years, until his death in in a car crash.[2][3] After two years of modeling while clothed, she began work as a nude model.[2] During her career as a model, she also posed for Henri Matisse,[4]Raoul Dufy, and Pierre Bonnard.[2][3]

Both Matisse and Bonnard attributed a renewed inspiration for painting and sculpture to Vierny.[citation needed]

After Maillol moved to Banyuls-sur-Mer in , she worked as a guide for the organization founded by Varian Fry to smuggle refugees out of occupied France[2] during World War II.[5] She was arrested by police in France and acquitted after a trial, and then left temporarily for Nice to pose for Henri Matisse before returning to Banyuls-sur-Mer.[2] She was arrested by the Gestapo in and spent six months in prison.[2]

In , she opened an art gallery in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres district of Paris.[3] In , she donated 18 Maillol sculptures to France for installation in the Jardin des Tuileries.[5][2]

In , she founded the Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol and opened the Musée Maillol.[2][6]

Death

Vierny died in Paris, five days before her 90th birthday.

She was survived by her two sons, Olivier Lorquin, director of the Musée Maillol in Paris, and art historian Bertrand Lorquin, the museum's curator.[2]

References

  1. ^"AFP: Décès de Dina Vierny, la muse du sculpteur Aristide Maillol". La Presse (in French). January 21, Retrieved
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    "Dina Vierny, Artist's Muse, Dies at 89".

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  3. ^ abcd"Dina Vierny dies at 89; sculptor's muse, artists' model". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. 22 January Retrieved 13 October
  4. ^Stamberg, Susan (December 29, ).

    Dina Vierny – Wikipedia External links [ edit ]. It is the culmination of thirty years of her work. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. Associated Press.

    "Dina Vierny, Model And Muse For Art's Masters". NPR. Retrieved 13 October

  5. ^ abGoldberg, Vicki (11 August ). "A Sculptor's Obsession, A Model's Devotion".

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    The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October

  6. ^Schiff, Bennett (May 31, ). "Aristide Maillol: The Sculptor, The Man and His Muse". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 13 October

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