Дина Верни
Biography
???? ????? (Dina Vierny) (January 25, 1919 — January 20, 2009) was an art dealer, collector and museum director and former artists' model. Vierny was born into a Jewish family Aibinder in Kishinev, Bessarabia (now Chisinau, Moldova). At fifteen years of age, she became a model and "muse" to the 73-year-old sculptor Aristide Maillol. He claimed that she looked like one of his works "come alive", and that it was her body that he had been sculpting all along.
