bronze version of 'Stretching the imagination' with life-size hands, commissioned by Henry Mendelssohn Buhl when he saw the small version in ARTnews.
The Buhl Collection, New York (cast 1/7, Accession 2005/06)
The idiom is expressed through hands literally stretching a face to create elongated hollows in the eye sockets and cheeks, and a broad smile.
