“Adrien Hébert paints the modern city and not the old city of the French Regime, Ville-Marie and its old monuments, witnesses of a glorious past that artists like Georges Delfosse tried to revive. Hébert paints the contemporary urban space with its port, commercial and industrial activities, all this buzzing life traditional rural values ??can only be lost. - Pierre L'Allier, Adrien Hébert, Museum of Quebec, page 93.

Canadian painter, son of the famous sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. By painting Montreal urbanity and industrialization between the wars, he quickly became a figure of modernity in Canadian art. The oil works about the port of Montreal are part of the collections of the great museums of the country.