Died Dina Verni

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In Paris on 89 th year of life died Dina Verni, muse of the great French sculptor Aristide Maillol, legendary galeristka, patroness Russian unofficial art.

Dina Verni - the last of the great music of XX century. As inspired by Dali's Gala, she belonged to the first wave of Russian emigration. Parents were taken her to Paris from Odessa in 1925 at the age of six, and at 15 she had already posed by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol, correct classical ideals of female beauty. Her face was captured in dozens of his sculptures - bronze copies of some of them are installed in the garden of the Tuileries. The aged master, who was already over 70, seriously carried away her young model, spending her last years until his death in a car accident in 1944. It Maillol, during the German occupation, taking advantage of their fame, Dinu rescued Verni, who participated in the Resistance, from the Gestapo. To her he bequeathed to his work and status.
After the war, in 1947, Dean's right, thanks to its Maiolo became a Parisian bohemians - and she was friends with the leader of the surrealists André Breton, and with customs Rousseau and Henri Matisse - on the advice of the latter opened the gallery, which became famous. Naturally, it showed there, and Russian immigrants, many making, for example, for a career abstractionist Serge Polyakov. In addition, Dina Verni helped to leave the USSR, Mikhail Shemyakin, it also funded the first published in Paris Journal of Soviet unofficial art - "paranormal.

In the Soviet Union for the first time she arrived in 1959, a decade later, met in Moscow with the unofficial artists who are very interested in it. Vladimir Yankilevsky by telephone from Paris, told Kommersant, as it were. "In the 70 Dina Verni visited several shops - Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Oscar Rabin and me - and decided that it would help us and represent us in the West. It took away the suitcase a lot of work, schedule basically, and then she managed to smuggle and more ambitious things. In 1973, she had already opened his gallery in the exhibition "Russian Avant-Garde-73." I thought it did five shows are already invited to the restructuring in Paris. All this time, she stressed that she does not Marchand, and philanthropist. Indeed, it sold very little, but in the collection of its stock a lot of unofficial Russian art. " It is thanks to Dina Verni many Russian nonconformist got a good start to the future of world fame.

One of the main problems created by Dina Verni Fund and deed of her life was the creation of Aristide Maillol Museum, which she opened in 1995 on the street Grenelle in Paris, which transferred its collection of his works (in 1963, Dina Verni donated to the French State all monumental works of Maillol ). In recent years, she worked a catalog-is reasonable (union catalog) works Aristide Maillol, partly handed the museum to his two sons, Olivier and Bertrand Lerkenam. But the gallery Dina Verni continued to be not just a legend, but also one of the major artistic centers of Paris fashion.

Ironically, in the Soviet Union Dina Verni is most famed as a singer, although a professional singing is not that particularly engaged. As it happened: in the 50's and 60's she had a lot to communicate with people who have passed through the camp, for example, with skid Aleshkovskii. Food format of communication intended and singing songs, in particular, and thieves, as a previously unknown reservoir of popular culture. These songs she is rumored to have had to learn by heart - an effort to take them to the tape of the film and even on paper could cause problems at the border. As the melody just remembered she had to sing too, herself. Therefore Dina Verny in 1975 recorded the disc "criminal songs" - sung by a strange, pretentious, with a noticeable accent voice of classic camp hits, as well as "Okurochek" Aleshkovskii and Bodaybo "Vysotsky. This plate was in the Soviet Union's underground hit, and the main thing - almost the only reliable thief anthology of folklore, not diluted by any imitation. For example, many could become a revelation that all known for a brilliant comic performance Georgy Vitsin song "Wait a minute, a locomotive ..." actually not a joke, a unique example of naive people's tragedy.

Dina Verni be buried on Saturday in her estate Metanvil near Paris.


B-Milena Orlova, Yuri b-Yarotsky

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Originally Posted by Cyril Syzransky

The parents were taken her to Paris from Odessa in 1925

In Paris from Odessa "is a balm to the soul.

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Originally Posted by SAH

is a balm to the soul

And I "balm"-Okurochek in her performance.