Tahir Salahov (Azerbaijan, 1928)2

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Tahir Salahov (born 1928, Baku) is an Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman. His father Teymur Salahov had been a victim of Stalin's repressions, having been arrested in 1937 and executed shortly after. His mother Sona was left to bring up four children on her own but the family didn't learn of their father's death until 1956 after Stalin's death.Tahir Salahov studied at the Azimzade Art College in Baku in 1945–1950 and the Surikov Moscow Art Institute in 1951–1957. Salahov won an early recognition: his diploma work, The Shift is Over, was exhibited in 1957 at the Moscow All-Union Art Exhibition and received public and critical acclaim. He became one of the leading representatives of the so-called "severe style" (Russian: "суровый стиль"), a trend in Soviet art of the 1960s that aimed to set off a hard, publicist, realist view against the ceremonial "polished reality" of the Joseph Stalin era.

For You, Humanity!1961

The State Tretyakov Gallery

Salahov’s compositions on the life and work of the Baku oil-workers (e.g. "Repair Men", 1961, Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, Baku) and portraits, e.g., of Azerbaijani composer Kara Karayev (1960, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), and Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1976, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow), are characterized by a forcefulness and lack of idealization. Salahov chose a sparing palette of contrasting red, black, light- and dark-grey tones and gave colored plains a decorative function.His later works are more peaceful and lyrically contemplative, and Eastern influences are more apparent, as in Portrait of Grandson Dan (1983, Azerbaijan State Museum of Art), in which the composition and colouring are subordinate to the flowing rhythms of Eastern medieval miniatures. His lines became smoother and more melodious, his palette more sophisticated. Many of his most successful works are associated with his impressions of foreign countries (e.g., Mexican Corrida; 1969, Mustafayev Azerbaijan State Museum of Art). He also produced expressive drawings and stage designs

The shift is over 1957

Tank farm, 1959

Temple of fire worshipers Caspian Sea today Maiden's Tower

Country Lights. Triptych. 2007

Maiden's Tower

Temple of fire

worshipers

Caspian Sea today

Country Lights Triptych

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Caspian Sea New Sea 1970

Rocks 1971

Near Caspian 1967

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Over The Caspian

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Oil-industry Worker with Red Cigarette 1959

Sketch of an oil worker at Oil Rocks 1970

The Caspian Sea in the morning , 1986

Absheron landscape. 1983 The State Tretyakov Gallery Absheron landscape. 1983 State Museum of Art Baku

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Artist Boris Efimov

2006The State Tretyakov

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Still life with pomegranates

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Today Salahov lives in Moscow, where he is a professor and has a studio at the Moscow Art Institute. He has received numerous honors, including People's Artist of USSR, Russia and Azerbaijan, Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR State Prize (1968), First Secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1973–1992), Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of over 20 academies and other creative organizations throughout the world, including academies of art of France, Spain, Germany, Austria, etc

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The World of Salvador Dali

Portlligat 2009

Triptych

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Magic carpet. Sketch for the ballet of Fikret Amirov 1000 and One Nights. 2009

A scene from the ballet 1001 Nights Kremlin Ballet, 2010

Stage design 1001 nights

Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg

2004

Portrait of the composer Fikret Amirov Azerbaijan State Museum of Art

Dede Korkut

2000

Koroğlu opera

costume 1975

Portrait of Rasul Rza. 1971 Azerbaijan State Museum of Art

Porch view1989

Porch view1990

Oriental pitchers to

Suzanne 2008

Still life with pomegranate tree branches 1997

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Portrait of Maqsud Ibrahimbeyov

Portrait of composer Kara Karaev. 1960The State Tretyakov Gallery

Portrait of Irina Strueva (2000)IRRA The Institute of Russian Realist Art 

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Meeting in Monaco

2007

Varvara in a red hat 2005

Portrait of Varvara1985

Portrait of Oli Rukavishnikovoy 1998

The dance of victory Spain 2005

Working sketch of Women of Absheron

Women of AbsheronDetail

Women of Absheron 1967The State Tretyakov Gallery

Exposition de Tahir Salahov (Académie des Beaux Arts de l'Institut Français) -

Ambassade d'Azerbaïdjan en

France

Azerbaijani artist awarded French

Legion d'Honneur

The exhibition "At the Crossroads of Centuries" was jointly organized by the French Academy of

Arts, the Azerbaijan Culture and Tourism

Ministry, and the Embassy of Azerbaijan in France

This was the first time that an Azerbaijani artist's exhibition

opens at the French Academy of Arts

“Return”was painted in connection with

95th birthday anniversary of

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

More than 80 works of the artist have

been used on the carpets by

one of the biggest carpet manufacturing factories in the

world, “Azerilme”

“Carpets woven on the basis of my

paintings thrill me up. They are a bright page in my

creative works.”

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