Patinated brass and copper, 1957, signed 'Ferber' and dated on the reverse. 17 x 8 x 6 in. Note: American artist Herbert Ferber was a New York School painter and sculptor best-known for his soldered and welded metal sculptures. Ferber studied fine art in the evenings while attending Columbia University Dental School and practiced as a dentist while pursuing his art from 1930 into the 1950s. By the mid-1950s, he dedicated himself totally to his art, becoming one of the leading Abstract Expressionist sculptors and an important member of the group of American artists who pioneered the Ab Ex movement in the years following World War II.