Dina in the Red Dress | An Evening with Lynne Bermont
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About The Book
Dina's story begins in the summer of 1940, as France succumbed to Germany. Dina Vierny posed for the famed sculptor Aristide Maillol near the French-Spanish border. But Dina had a restless spirit; by night, she led Resistance missions helping artists, intellectuals, and activists escape across the mountains into Spain. Her actions were all the more perilous because she was a Russian-born Jew, yet she refused to flee to safety while there was still a chance to help others. Her work spanned the Pyrenees, Marseille, Nice, Lyon, and the studios of Maillol, Matisse, Bonnard, Dufy, Picasso, and the Surrealists.
Dedicating her postwar life to artists, she smuggled paintings by Jewish dissidents out of the Soviet Union to exhibit their work in her Paris gallery and museum. The art she inspired and curated can also be found in sculpture gardens at the Met, MoMA, the Getty, and across the lawn of the Louvre.
Drawing on extensive interviews and deep archival research, Lynne Bermont chronicles Dina's missions and her partnership with Maillol, bringing to life two remarkable figures and the dark times that shaped their art. Dina in the Red Dress is a stunning portrait of resilience in the face of adversity, and an inspiring account of how art and friendship can sustain us in impossible circumstances.
About The Author
Lynne Bermont graduated from Duke and earned a Ph.D. in French from Yale. As a guest speaker in the NYU Writers in Paris MFA program, she has lectured at the Rodin Museum, the Musée de l'Orangerie, the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume, and the Musée d'Art Moderne. She is a senior lecturer in French at Mercy University, where she received an Excellence in Teaching award and a faculty grant supporting her research for this book in the Pyrenees. She is also a recipient of the Robert and Ina Caro Fellowship for Biographical Research and lives with her family in New York and Miami.
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