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Olivier lorquin dina vierny biography
Dina Vierny
French artists' model, singer, art dealer, collector and museum director
Dina Vierny (25 January 1919 – 20 January 2009) 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 1995, she established the Musée Maillol.
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 1944 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