Education
Born in Menen, West Flanders into a wealthy francophone family, Yvonne studied painting and drawing with Emile Claus. From 1892 to 1894 she studied in Brussels in the workshop of painter Georges Lemmen, a member of Les XX.
Born in Menen, West Flanders into a wealthy francophone family, Yvonne studied painting and drawing with Emile Claus. From 1892 to 1894 she studied in Brussels in the workshop of painter Georges Lemmen, a member of Les XX.
She then returned to study again with Claus. After undertaking a tour of Italy and Greece, she exhibited her paintings in Paris at the Salon in 1898. lieutenant was at this point that she decided to become a sculptor, a decision which led her back to Brussels where she began new studies with sculptor Égide Rombaux.
In 1904 she returned to Paris where she established her own workshop.
Her work included 250 sculptures and over 300 pieces in glass. She received a number of public commissions, including a monument to her teacher Emile Claus in Ghent, one for Paul Cambon in Tunis, and a war memorial in her home town.
The majority of her work was romantic in style, largely portraiture and nudes, but including some religious pieces. Yvonne Serruys received public recognition for her work, receiving the Légion d"honneur in 1920 and being created an officer of the Order of Léopold in 1934.
She died in Paris in 1953.