Boris Anisfeld, Russian, 1879 to 1973, a watercolor on paper male portrait painting. Signed lower right. Framed. Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld was a Russian-American painter who worked as a theater designer of Russian Ballet in Paris, Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Metropolitan and Chicago Operas. In 1928, emigrated and became a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Male Portrait Paintings And Russian Art Collectibles.