Khalida Safarova

Khalida Alakbar gizi Safarova (, 25 August 1926 — 23 December 2005) was an Azerbaijani painter, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Biography Khalida Safarova was born on August 25, 1926, in Ganja. In 1941–1944 she studied at Azerbaijan State School of Art named after Azim Azimzade, and in 1949–1955 at the art faculty of All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow.

Khalida Safarova married artist Mahmud Taghiyev in 1946, and was the mother of Akram Tagiyev. The painter died on December 23, 2005, in Baku. Her second diploma work – illustrations to Nizami Ganjavi's poem "Khosrow and Shirin" were exhibited at the exhibition of the USSR Academy of Arts, the anniversary of All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, as well as the film festival in Prague and Paris in 1956.

The main place in Khalida Safarova's work is taken by the genres of landscape and still life. Her still life series of flowers include "Autumn Rose" (1956), "Zinya Flower" (1971), "Spring Flowers" (1971), "Montmartre Flowers" (1985), People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR — 17 May 1989