 He was only recognized as a notable artist, decades after his death, with major retrospectives of his paintings celebrating his career by the Galerie Bernard Desroches in Montréal in 1974, and at the Musée du Québec (now Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec) in Québec City in 1987.Henri Beau was born Louis-Henri Beau to a working class French-Canadian family in Montréal, in 1863.He was the third child of restaurateur Charles-Arsène Beau and Marguerite-Clémentine Hupé.