Draft:Yo Savy

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• Comment: Couldn't tell they were a painter until almost the end of the article. This reads more like an obituary than an encyclopedic article. Is this a translation? Ktkvtsh (talk) 03:45, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Yvonne Serre was born in Paris February 6, 1911.^[1] Her mother Jeanne Serre, married to insurance broker Maurice Serre, became an artist's model for Marcel Duchamp in 1910. Maurice Serre died of tuberculosis before Yvonne turned 8 years old.^[2] In 1918, Marcel Duchamp encountered Jeanne Serre by chance in the Paris Métro along with her daughter.^[3] Jeanne Serre remarried in 1921 to a "bicycle dealer" named Henry Mayer.^[4][5]

Encouraged by her mother, Yvonne became a painter and studied at the Grande Chaumière workshop in the 1930s.^[6] During the war, her stepfather Henry Mayer was deported to a Nazi concentration camp.^[7] Yvonne chose her artist name, Yo Sermayer, as a contraction of her two fathers' surnames.^[8]

Yo settled on the rue Camille-Tahan near the Montmartre cemetery with her husband, Jacques Savy.^[9][10] They were collectors of antique crystal paperweight balls, which were subsequently bequeathed to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.^[11]

In June 1966, with the help of his wife Teeny, Marcel Duchamp reconnected with Jeanne Serre at the Galerie Louis Carré, on the occasion of the exhibition of Duchamp's brother's sculpture: Le Cheval-Majeur.^[12] This lead to the first meeting between the Duchamps and the Savys and their immediate friendship.^[13] Beyond the physical similarities, Marcel and Yo share a sense of humor as well as a passion for "games of intellect and language".^[14] Over the next two years, the couples visited each other often, "the two men [often] playing chess... the women discussing everything and nothing."^[15] In 1967 Duchamp helped organize a New York exhibition of Yo's paintings at the Bodley Gallery.^[16] Duchamp includes the following text in the catalog:

after: “Furniture Music” by Érik SATie here: “Furniture Painting” by Yo SAVY (aka Sermayer)

    Rrose SélAVY (alias Marcel Duchamp)[17][18]

Yo Savy alias Yo Sermayer's paintings were displayed in 1983 in a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Bern.^[19] Around the turn of the millennium, her work was shown again at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva.^[20][21]

By all accounts, she loved cigars and oysters, letter-writing, and sports.^[22][23] To the rescue-workers who came to her aid after a statue fell on her, she reportedly said, "Thanks for coming, how much do I owe you?"^[24] Although her eyesight declined and eventually failed, Yo continued to dine out at restaurants with her friends "almost daily... during the last years of her life."^[25] She died on September 22, 2003 and was buried under the name Yvonne Savy-Meyer alongside her husband in the Charenton cemetery.^[26][27]