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Dina Vierny
January 25, 1919 — January 20, 2009Kishinev, Bessarabia
Dina Vierny was an artists' model who became a singer, French art dealer, collector and museum director. Born as Dina Aibinder into a Jewish family in Kishinev, Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova) on 25 January 1919, she was Aristide Maillol's muse for the last ten years of his life. Both Matisse and Bonnard, artists for whom she also posed, attributed a renewed inspiration for painting and sculpture to Vierny. She died on 21 January 2009 in Paris, France.
