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[[File:Kasteev.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Self-portrait of Abylkhan Kasteyev on a Kazakhstani stamp, 2004.]]
'''Abilkhan Kasteev''' ({{lang-kk|Әбілхан Қастеев}}; 1904—1973) was a [[Kazakhstan]]i painter. He was highly decorated, winning the National Artist of Kazakh SSR, and The Laureate of the Chokan Valikhanov State Premium of the Kazakh SSR. He was awarded the [[Order of October Revolution]], and two Orders of Labour Red Flag.

Kasteev was born in a small village in [[Taldykorgan Region]] and studied at the [[Nadezhda Krupskaya]] art studio in [[Almaty]]. He painted more than a thousand paintings in oil and water-colours. Some of his works are on display in the State [[Tretyakov Gallery]], in the [[State Museum of East Nations Art]], in the [[Central Museum of USSR Revolution by Lenin Order]] in Moscow, and in the [[State Museum of Fine Arts of Kazakhstan]] (which was renamed after Kasteev), and in the other museums of the country.

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722142440/http://oyu.kz/en/authors/kasteyev_a.html Oyo Art Gallery]

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[[Category:1904 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century Kazakhstani painters]]
[[Category:People from Almaty Region]]


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