Ms. Vierny was a 15-year-old lycée student in Paris when she met Maillol, in the mid-1930s. The architect Jean-Claude Dondel, a friend ofher father's, decided that she would make the perfect model for the artist, who was 73 and in the professional doldrums. For the next 10 years, until his death in a car accident in 1944, Ms. Vierny wasMaillol's muse, posing for monumental works of sculpture that belied her modest height of 5 feet 2 inches. By mutual agreement, the relationship was strictly artistic. Maillol threw himself into his sculpture with renewed energy and, at Ms. Vierny's urging, began painting again. After his death, she worked tirelessly to pro- mote his art and enhance his reputation, eventually creating the Maillol Museum and donating 18 sculptures to the French government on the condition that they be placed in the Jardin des Tuileries. She later added two more. After the war, Ms. Vierny opened an art gallery in Paris, where she exhibited Maillol's work, as well as that of others. After traveling to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, she began collecting and showing work by dissident artists like Ilya Kabakov and Erik Bulatov. In the early 1970s, Ms. Vierny decided to start a Maillol museum. She began buying up apartments on the Rue de Grenelle in Paris, selling off her collection of 654 dolls along the way. In 1995 she opened the Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, whose permanent collection also includes work by Degas, Kandinsky, Picasso, Duchamp and assorted naïve artists.