French Painting attributed to Andre Bicat: Abstract Composition, "Geometric Shapes"

Bricks of paint stacked in yellow, blue and green, slathered on with a palette knife.

Geometric Shapes is an abstract composition painted in oil on board, from Paris, France, around 1931, and is attributed to Andre Bicat. Paris between the wars was a center of geometric abstraction, where painters explored color and form freed from subject matter. Here thickly loaded rectangles in yellow, cobalt, slate blue, olive, dark green and cream are laid in uneven courses, like a wall. Dark lines show between them where the ground peeks through. The paint is heavily textured, with knife marks and ridges. It sits in an ornate gilt frame with scrolling corners.

Masonry for people who prefer color to mortar.