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Mikayil Abdullayev was born on 19th December in 1921 in Baku. He graduated in 1939 from the A.Azimzadeh

Azerbaijan Art School and later, in 1949, graduated from the Moscow V. I. Surikov Arts Institute

Mikayil Abdullayev (1921-2002)

Painter and graphic artist People’s Artist of the USSR (1963)Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1958)Member of the CPSU since 1954.

Mikayil Abdullayev (1921-2002)

“Azerbaijan magnificent nature, glorious history and national-cultural values were skillfully described in Mikayil Abdullayev’s works”

The Builders of Happiness 1951Azerbaijan Museum of Art, Baku

Portrait of a team leader Rahshandy

1954-55

Amina Dilbazi was a great Azeri dancer and founder of Azeri classical folk dance

Xurshudbanu Natavan, 1943 

Having lived through the turbulence of the 20th century in Azerbaijan, Mikayil Abdullayev left a colourful visual record of the country’s culture, way of life and landscape

Girl from LankaranState Art Museum Baku

Young mother

Girl from Karabakh

Centennial carver A. Babayev 1961 Tretyakov Gallery

Artist’s mother Little Chandra 1957

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June 1941 Mustafayev National Art Museum Women

Indian women

Soldier

Cotton 1977

Bailing Cotton

India

Masalli girls

For "India series," M. Abdullayev has been awarded with International Nehru Prize (1970)

Maxim GorkiSemed Vurgun

The poet Rasul Rza

Works in State Theatre Museum Baku

Works in State Theatre Museum Baku

The Lights of Mingechaur (1948)Azerbaijan Museum of Art, Baku

Stalin lying in catafalque1953

Temple in Singapore Mikayil Abdullayev (1921-2002)

Houses on the coast, in the background port facilities

Abdullayev was a very versatile

artist. Around 1973, he worked with sculptor Albert

Mustafayev on the statue of Nasimi. The statue, which stands near the

junction of Nizami and Samad

Vurghun streets in Baku, also became a public favourite

Monument to Azerbaijani Poet Imadaddin Nasimi (1369-1417)

Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Baku, Azerbaijan

Füzuli

State Art Museum Baku

Fuzuli is one of the greatest Azeri-Turkish poets

Evening1947

Babak march - Sadiq Şerifzade, Michael Abdullayev, Boyukaga Mirzazade (1942) The National Art Museum, Baku

2011Baku hosts exhibition of Mikail Abdullayev:

"I thank God that lived up to these days"

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu

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Sound: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Waiting For Aziza