Othon COUBINE (1883 - 1969). Portrait of a woman in profile. Oil on canvas (slight wear to the paint layer) signed lower left, bears annotations including the number 27 on the back. Height : 47 cm 47 cm - Width : 38 cm Note : Othon COUBINE, Czech painter and sculptor, traveled in his youth and settled in Paris, the capital of the arts and the avant-garde at the beginning of the century. In his painting, he subtly combines the color inherited from German expressionism and fauvism and the geometric forms of cubism, seeking harmony and balance.