Estelle Hecht

{{Short description|Jewish canadian artist and gallerist}}

Estelle Hecht (died in 1971) was a Jewish Canadian engraver, painter and gallerist from Montreal, Quebec.{{Cite news|last=Sabbath|first=Lawrence|date=March 1966|title=Seven Jewish Women|work=Congress Bulletin|url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4335674|access-date=2021-11-14}} She ran the print gallery Gallery 1640 which she founded in 1961.{{Cite thesis|last=Lafleur|first=Geneviève|title=Le parcours de formation et les stratégies de diffusion de femmes galeristes à Montréal entre 1941 et 1963: Denyse Delrue, Estelle Hecht, Agnes Lefort et Rose Millman.|publisher=Université du Québec à Montréal|year=2011|url=https://bibliomontreal.uqam.ca/bibliographie/notice/SQZHVSV6|language=French}} She studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and was trained by drawing professors Jacques de Tonnancour, Arthur Lismer, and Moses "Moe" Reinblatt in engraving.{{Cite book|last=Comeau|first=André|title=Artistes plasticiens: Canada (Régime français et Conquête), Bas-Canada et le Québec|publisher=Bellarmin|year=193|isbn=2890075133|language=French}} She died in the fire that destroyed her art gallery in 1971.{{Cite journal|last=F.|first=J.|date=13 November 1971|title=She was an art pioneer in the city|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GkEjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=36EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3977%2C5165570|journal=The Gazette (Montréal)|pages=51}}