(THEATER) BORIS ANISFELD Costume design for Aziade

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BORIS ANISFELD.
Costume design for "Aziade," for Mikhail Mordkin's 1926 ballet. Graphite and gouache on board, outlined in pigment and gum arabic. 356x254 mm; 14x10 inches. Illegible inscription at upper right corner. Soiled, some flaking, corners bumped. Framed.

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Boris Anisfeld (1878-1973) was a Russian-American theater designer who studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Among his first stage productions was a 1910 run of Tchaikovsky's "The Four Seasons." He came to New York in 1918 where he was welcomed by the Brooklyn Museum who honored Anisfeld by organizing a traveling show of his works. He continued to work steadily, designing sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera before heading the Department of Advanced Painting at the Art Institute of Chicago for almost three decades where his students included Robert Indiana, Jack Beal, and Red Grooms.