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Дина Верни (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. She was Maillol's source of inspiration for the last ten years of his life. Both Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard, artists...