Dina Vierny

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), she moved to France with her family during her childhood.

Beginning at age 15, she was Aristide Maillol's muse for ten years, until his death in 1944 in a car crash. Raoul Dufy, and Pierre Bonnard. 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.

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.