Mikayil Abdullayev

Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev (19 December 1921, Baku – 21 August 2002, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani painter. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR (1963), and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1963). Abdullayev created a series of paintings entitled Through India.

Biography
Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev was born 19 December 1921 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union. Abdullayev was an alumnus of the A. Azimzadeh Azerbaijan Painting School (1939) and the Surikov Moscow Art Institute (1949) (now Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture).

During his trips to India, Afghanistan, 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 and Farhad Badalbeyli. Abdullayev's paintings were exhibited in cities such as Paris, London, Berlin, Montreal, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Warsaw, Delhi, Cairo, Brussels. Abdullayev was also the designer of artistic panel in the Nizami Station of Baku Metro.

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