Albert Benois, Russian, Soviet era, 1852 to 1936, mixed media painting on paper, Marche Region, Italy, Autumn. Signed with initials lower to the center. Inscribed and titled in Cyrillic lower left. Provenance: Arus Auctions, Framingham, MA, United States, March 09, 2014, lot 317. Albert Nikolayevitch Benois was a Russian painter and art teacher who specialized in watercolor landscapes. Albert Nikolayevich Benois was a Russian watercolorist. Benois was from a Russian family of artists, of French descent. His father, named Nikolai Leontievich Benois was the famous architect of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera House in St. Petersburg, as well as many other historic landmarks. One of a kind artwork.