This lithograph comes from the third series of School Prints (www.merivaleeditions.com/schoolprints published in the immediate post-war period. A scheme initiated during the 1930s for the circulation to schools of original prints by well known artists. For this series, six artists of international fame were commissioned to produce lithographs on specially developed plastic plates to be published in editions of 3000 copies. Although the artists were Braque, Dufy, Leger, Matisse and Picasso as well as Moore, the venture was not a commercial success.