Alexandre and Pierre Lorquin, Keepers of the Flame of the Dina Vierny Gallery

What do you remember about your grandmother, Dina Vierny? Alexandre Lorquin. We were very close. Our grandmother enjoyed sharing her passion for objects with us. She gave me a little anthropomorphic dog from her collection of dolls and automatons, certainly one of the biggest in the world, which I had to sell to fund the Maillol Museum ( editor’s note: founded by Dina Vierny in Paris in 1995 ). After showing me how it worked, she put it away in a locked room. That gives you some idea of the visceral relationship she had with objects. She possessed over 80 collections: mustard jars, canes, keys and, of course, paintings. They stretched from the floor to the ceiling! Did you inherit her “collectionitis”, which your father also has? A. L. We started collecting very young. Today we buy modern and contemporary art together: Aristide  Maillol, Edgar Sarin, Nuvolo—a still little-known Italian artist whose beautiful 1955 painting we recently bought at Drouot —20 th -century furniture and Épinal prints . The same eclecticism is still going strong. Your father, Olivier Lorquin, has been running the gallery since the 1980s. Why is he passing the torch now? Pierre Lorquin.…