DUSHANBE, June 20, 2013, Asia-Plus – An exhibition of works by People’s Artist of Tajikistan Khushbakht Khushvakhtov has opened in Moscow.
Dedicated to pay tribute to the memory of known Tajik painter, the exhibition opened on June 19. It is the first exhibition of works by the painter after he died on March 12 this year, an official source at the Tajik Embassy in Moscow said.
The exhibition is organized by the painter’s sons under support of Moscow University of Finance and Law.
Known Tajik painter Khushbakht Khushvakhtov died in Moscow on March 12, aged 86 after a short illness. For the past two decades, Khushvakhtov had lived in Moscow.
Born in Rushan district of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) on December 9, 1926, Khushbakht Khushvakhtov received his early education in Gorno Badakhshan before graduating in 1960 from the V.I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute. He taught at the Republican Art School in Dushanbe in 1960-1961.
Khushvakhtov’s landscapes and thematic pictures depicting the Pamir’s majestic scenery and its inhabitants are characterized by a restrained palette, vividness, and traditionalist artistic solutions. Examples are
Khoroq
(1961),
The Alai Valley
(1962),
In Years Gone By
(1967),
Native Craftsmen
(1970) and
Yaks
(1970); all are at the Behzod Republican Museum of History, Local Lore, and Fine Arts in Dushanbe.
