Mikayil Abdullayev
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Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev (born 19 December 1921, Baku) is an Azerbaijani painter, People's Painter of the former USSR since 1963 and a recipient of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award (1969),[1] for a series of paitings entitled Through India. He is an alumnus of the Azimzadej Azerbaijan Painting School (1939) and the Surikov Moscow State Painting Institute (1949). During hi trips to India, Afghanistan, Hungary, Poland, Italy and other countries in 1956–71, Abdullayev painted Bengali Girls, Rajasthani Women, An Old Afghan, as well as portraits of Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl, Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Manzù, etc. Among portraits of Azerbaijani people, there are those of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Samad Vurgun, Mirza Fatali Akhundov and Farhad Badalbeyli. Abdullayev's paintings were exhibited in Paris, London, Berlin, Montreal, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, Sophia, Warsaw, Dehli, Cairo, Bruxelles etc. Abdullayev is also the designer of artistic panel in the Nizami Station of Baku Metro.
[edit] 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
[edit] Note
- ^ (1976) Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia. State Publishing House of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR, 1st vol.
