Her poetry was published under the pen name Irine, and she appeared as Lorrie in the writings of her husband, Louis Scutenaire, and the works of René Magritte.

Then in 1928, she met the Brussels surrealists (she would later portray them in rough outline as hooligans in her novel Boulevard Jacqmain [1953]; reprinted in 1996 by the Éditions Devillez).

At that time she first became involved with the burgeoning Belgian surrealist group forming around artists such as Magritte, Marc.

[2] After Scutenaire's death in 1987, she published her recollections of their life together as Ma vie avec Scut.

Irène Harmoir legated the Belgium Museum of Fine Art with surrealistic works, such as these by Marc.