[2] Among Bahlulzade's best-known works are Tears of Kapaz (1965), Bank of the Gudiyalchay (1953), Dream of the Land (1961), Evening Above the Caspian Sea (1959), and Goygol (1964).
[3] The majority of Bahlulzade's body of work is preserved in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan, where a special hall is dedicated to the artist.
Today, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of Azerbaijan, as well as a prominent figure in the history of Azerbaijani art in general.
He is the recipient of many awards, including two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour and People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
Being surrounded by objects of folklore art - colorful carpets woven by his mother and grandmother, jewelry, as well as ceramics and copper dishes passed down from generation to generation - Sattar began to cultivate a love for art.
[6] After graduating in 1931, he began working with Azim Azimzade for the newspaper "Communist" as a graphic illustrator.
In 1933, began studying at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he became a student of Vladimir Favorsky.
His frequent summer trips to Crimea played an important role in developing his mastery of landscape art.
After his return to Baku, Bahlulzade's work focused on the depictions of historic personalities and events.
[7] In the post-war years, Bahlulzade painted works depicting the oil fields, dachas, and villages of the Absheron Peninsula.
Bahlulzade's attraction to depictions of nature grew, and he started to paint more landscape sceneries.
However, Bahlulzade soon developed his own style, which helped him to better express his emotions in his depictions of nature.
Sattar Bahlulzade developed his work on both natural and industrial landscapes simultaneously.
In 1954, he visited the Oil Rocks offshore drilling complex, which was dubbed Island of Miracles at the time.
He returned to Baku full of impressions and ideas about future oil industry landscapes.
A year before Bahlulzade's death, in 1973, a solo exhibition of the artist was published in Moscow.
The artist was buried on October 16, not in the Alley of Honor in Baku as expected, but, at his own request, in his native village Amirjan, next to the grave of his mother.
[7] A monument was erected over Bahlulzade's grave by sculptor Omar Eldarov, depicting an artist with two empty picture frames.
As a painter, Sattar Bahlulzade could express himself better in harmony with nature, which we can see in the background of some of his most famous works.
[12] He said: “Many people think that I can take a clean canvas and a paintbox and easily paint various moments in nature whenever I wish.
The first time was when the Azerbaijani sculptor Fuad Abdurakhmanov decided to create a sculpture of the artist.
Today, the resulting marble sculpture is displayed in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan in Baku, illustrating the artist with short hair.
Bahlulzade's works have been shown at exhibitions of Soviet fine art in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Norway, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Iraq, Cuba, Canada, Belgium, France, Japan, and other countries.
The life and work of Bahlulzade have been the subject of many documentaries, paintings, poems, and sculptures.