Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev (19 December 1921,
Baku
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- 22 August 2002, Baku) was an
Azerbaijani painter, a
People's Artist of the former
USSR since 1963, and creator of a series of paintings entitled ''Through India''.
Abdullayev was an alumnus of the Azimzadeh Azerbaijan Painting School (1939) and the Surikov Moscow State Painting Institute (1949).
During his trips to
India,
,
Hungary,
Poland,
Italy and other countries from 1956 through 71, Abdullayev painted ''Bengali Girls'', ''Rajasthani Women'', ''An Old Afghan'', as well as portraits of
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl,
Renato Guttuso,
Giacomo Manzù among others. Among portraits of Azerbaijani people, there are those of
Uzeyir Hajibeyov,
Samad Vurgun,
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Mirza Fatali Akhundov ( az, Mirzə Fətəli Axundov; fa, میرزا فتحعلی آخوندزاده), also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (12 July 1812 – 9 March 1878), was a celebrated Azerbaijani author, pla ...
and
Farhad Badalbeyli. Abdullayev's paintings were exhibited in cities such as
Paris,
London,
Berlin,
Montreal,
Prague,
Budapest,
Belgrade
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,
Sofia,
Warsaw,
Delhi,
Cairo,
Brussels. Abdullayev was also the designer of artistic panel in the Nizami Station of
Baku Metro.
The Tolga family is the main collector of the 532 Abdullayev paintings in Turkey.
Notable works
*1947 - ''An Evening''
*1948 - ''Mingachevir Lights''
*1951 - ''Builders of Happiness''
*1956 - ''Sevinj''
*1963-65 - ''On the Fields of Azerbaijan'' triptych
*1964 - ''On the Absheron''
*1982 - ''Khachmaz Girls''
References
External links
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Story of Abdullayev
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Azerbaijani portrait painters
Artists from Baku
1921 births
2002 deaths
Recipients of the Istiglal Order
20th-century Azerbaijani painters
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Soviet painters
Honored Art Workers of the Azerbaijan SSR