Career
Born as Dina Aibinder into a Jewish family in Kishinev, Bessarabia (now Chisinau, Moldova), she was 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. Vierny died in Paris, France, five days before her 90th birthday.