The United Kingdom building at the Paris International Exposition, 1937 (b/w photo)

Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans le Vie Moderne; in 1937 John Skeaping (1901-80) asked Michael Foley (1912-43) to be his assistant for the huge Modernist figure murals that Skeaping had been commissioned to paint for the British Pavilion at the prestigious Paris International Exhibition of that year. This was a quite monumental undertaking. The technical and practical difficulties of making these murals, at least 200ft long and around 15-20ft high, being compounded by the fact that they were completed in just four weeks murals by Michael Foley (1912-43);