Dina Vierny

The gallery became famous in Paris thanks to its first exhibition dedicated to Maillol, and went on to make a name for itself with exhibitions of works by Rodin, Henri Laurens and Matisse. Dina Vierny met Serge Poliakoff and organised his first major exhibition in 1951. This was followed by exhibitions of the Vollard suite by Picasso, Kandinsky, Pougny, Dufy, Doucet, Charchoune, Gilioli, Couturier and Zitman. Dina Vierny was also passionate about naïve art and exhibited works by Bauchant, Bombois, Ève, Desnos, Racoff, Rimbert, Séraphine de Senlis and Vivin. In the early 1970s, she travelled to the Soviet Union, where she discovered Kabakov, Bulatov, Yankilevsky and Oscar Rabin. She smuggled their work out of Russia and organised the famous ‘Russian Avant-Garde – Moscow 73’ exhibition.