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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is funded by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec.

  
Collections
Selected works from 1900 to 2000

Adrien Hébert
Paris (France) 1890 – Montréal (Québec, Canada) 1967
Training
  • Took classes at the Monument national in Montréal between 1904 and 1906.
  • Studied at the Art Association of Montréal for one year, under William Brymner.
  • Painted and exhibited his work as of age 19.
  • Left for France in 1911 and studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris.
Artistic production
  • Adrien Hébert’s work celebrates modernity and city life. To the artist’s mind, the factories, Montréal harbour, mechanical cranes, tramways, automobiles and smoke reflect the North American lifestyle of his times.
Alongside his artistic career
  • Taught at the Monument national, Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal and Conseil des arts et manufacture.
  • Stayed in Paris in 1922 and 1923. Learned wood engraving.
Features
  • Spent his childhood in both France and Canada.
  • Grew up in a family of artists. His brother, Henri, was a sculptor like his famous father, Louis-Philippe Hébert.
  • During his summers on Ïle Bélair, his neighbour was caricaturist-painter Henri Julien. He also met Maurice Cullen, a former sculpture apprentice to his father. The young artist learned more hands-on than through formal training.
  • Travelled in Africa, France and Spain between 1954 and 1959.
  • Has been the subject of two retrospectives: one at the Musée du Québec (now the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec) and the other at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
  • The City of Montréal presented French President Charles de Gaulle with a canvas by Adrien Hébert during his visit in 1967.
Highlight
  • In 1938, he lost an eye following a car accident.