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On the advice of Matisse and Jeanne Bucher, Dina Vierny, Maillol’s last model, decided to open a gallery in 1947. She took up residence at 36 rue Jacob, in a former bougnat converted into a wooden showcase by Auguste Perret. Still in its original state, the gallery is now the oldest in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
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.
Always driven by the same eclecticism, the gallery was managed from the mid-1980s by Olivier Lorquin, son of Dina Vierny, who then handed over to his two sons, Pierre and Alexandre Lorquin, in January 2021.
They reoriented the gallery’s strategy towards Impressionism, modern art and post-war art, diversifying the list of artists and participating in numerous fairs in France and abroad (BRAFA, Salon du Dessin, Art Paris, FAB).
To enrich the gallery’s list of historic artists, new prestigious names have been added, such as Judit Reigl, Germaine Richier and Michel Haas, whose estate the gallery took over in 2022. Each exhibition features a guest curator who adopts a scientific approach to the project, enabling an ambitious publication to be produced almost systematically.
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CONTACT & ACCES
Open Tuesday to Saturday from
10am to 7pm
Open Tuesday to Saturday from
10am to 7pm
ABOUT
On the advice of Matisse and Jeanne Bucher, Dina Vierny, Maillol’s last model, decided to open a gallery in 1947. She took up residence at 36 rue Jacob, in a former bougnat converted into a wooden showcase by Auguste Perret. Still in its original state, the gallery is now the oldest in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 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. Always driven by the same eclecticism, the gallery was managed from the mid-1980s by Olivier Lorquin, son of Dina Vierny, who then handed over to his two sons, Pierre and Alexandre Lorquin, in January 2021. They reoriented the gallery’s strategy towards Impressionism, modern art and post-war art, diversifying the list of artists and participating in numerous fairs in France and abroad (BRAFA, Salon du Dessin, Art Paris, FAB). To enrich the gallery’s list of historic artists, new prestigious names have been added, such as Judit Reigl, Germaine Richier and Michel Haas, whose estate the gallery took over in 2022. Each exhibition features a guest curator who adopts a scientific approach to the project, enabling an ambitious publication to be produced almost systematically.
On the advice of Matisse and Jeanne Bucher, Dina Vierny, Maillol’s last model, decided to open a gallery in 1947. She took up residence at 36 rue Jacob, in a former bougnat converted into a wooden showcase by Auguste Perret. Still in its original state, the gallery is now the oldest in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 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. Always driven by the same eclecticism, the gallery was managed from the mid-1980s by Olivier Lorquin, son of Dina Vierny, who then handed over to his two sons, Pierre and Alexandre Lorquin, in January 2021. They reoriented the gallery’s strategy towards Impressionism, modern art and post-war art, diversifying the list of artists and participating in numerous fairs in France and abroad (BRAFA, Salon du Dessin, Art Paris, FAB). To enrich the gallery’s list of historic artists, new prestigious names have been added, such as Judit Reigl, Germaine Richier and Michel Haas, whose estate the gallery took over in 2022. Each exhibition features a guest curator who adopts a scientific approach to the project, enabling an ambitious publication to be produced almost systematically.
The gallery became famous in Paris thanks to a first Maillol exhibition, and then asserted itself with exhibitions of Rodin, Henri Laurens, Matisse… Dina Vierny met Serge Poliakoff and organized his first important exhibition in 1951. This was followed by exhibitions of the Vollard suite of Picasso, Kandinsky, Pougny, Dufy, Doucet, Charchoune, Gilioli, Couturier or Zitman. The gallery owner then became enamored with the modern primitives and exhibited Bauchant, Bombois, Eve, Desnos, Racoff, Rimbert, Séraphine de Senlis and Vivin. In the early 70s, she travels to the Soviet Union where she discovers Kabakov, Boulatov, Yankilevsky and Oscar Rabin. She smuggled their works out of Russia and organized the famous exhibition Russian Avant-Garde – Moscow 73.
Always animated by this same eclecticism, the gallery was then directed by Olivier Lorquin, son of Dina Vierny, who left his place to his two sons, Pierre and Alexandre Lorquin, in January 2021. They are now reorienting the gallery’s strategy towards impressionism, modern and post-war art, diversifying the list of artists. This comprehensive project aims to present ambitious new exhibitions in and out of the gallery, but also to develop a series of publications in connection with these exhibitions, and to develop a strong identity within the international gallery community. In 2021, the gallery has already presented three exhibitions, one dedicated to a Maillol (Maillol, la forme libre, curated by Valérie da Costa); the second, to Séraphine, on the occasion of the release of the catalog raisonné; and the third, to Judit Reigl (Judit Reigl: première abstraction), a French abstract artist of Hungarian origin (Aware Prize 2017).
