{"id":1328,"date":"2009-01-27T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T07:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/dina-vierny-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T01:15:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T08:15:28","slug":"dina-vierny-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/27\/dina-vierny-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dina Vierny Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the LA Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dina Vierny dies at 89; sculptor’s muse, artists’ model<\/h1>\n

\"Dina<\/p>\n

Louis Carre \/ AFP-Getty Images<\/p>\n

Dina Vierny, seen in 1944 with French sculptor Aristide Maillol, began modeling for him at age 15. She was his greatest devotee and the leading force in making his acclaimed figurative bronzes available to the public.<\/p>\n

Associated Press<\/p>\n

January 22, 2009<\/p>\n

Dina Vierny, muse to French sculptor Aristide Maillol and model for painters Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard, has died, her sons announced Wednesday in Paris. She was 89.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vierny, who began modeling for Maillol at age 15, died Tuesday morning at an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n

Vierny was Maillol’s greatest devotee and the leading force in making his acclaimed figurative bronzes available to the public.<\/p>\n

Born in 1919 in what is now the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, and was then part of the Russian empire, Vierny fled Stalinist Russia with her family, settling in France.<\/p>\n

Through a family friend, she was presented to Maillol, becoming his model in 1934. She collaborated with the artist until his death in a car accident in 1944, inspiring sleek, bold works like\u00a0\u201cLa Montagne\u201d (The Mountain)<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cL\u2019Air\u201d (Air)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cLa Riviere\u201d (The River)<\/a>, one of his last works.<\/p>\n

She was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and was arrested. After helping to obtain her release, Maillol sent her to southern France to stay with his friend Matisse, reportedly instructing him to use her as a model.<\/p>\n

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from the LA Times Dina Vierny dies at 89; sculptor’s muse, artists’ model Louis Carre \/ AFP-Getty Images Dina Vierny, seen in 1944 with French sculptor Aristide Maillol, began modeling for him at age 15. She was his greatest devotee and the leading force in making his acclaimed figurative bronzes available to the public. Associated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}