Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1900–1990

Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1900–1990

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Herbert Ferber

If I Touch Them They Bleed (Game I)

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Herbert Ferber 

1906 - 1991


If I Touch Them They Bleed (Game I) 

lead and brass, in 4 parts with wood base 

15 ½ by 20 by 6 ½ in.

39.4 by 50.8 by 16.5 cm. 

Executed in 1949.

Philip Johnson, New Canaan

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1969 by the present owner

Bronxville, New York, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Sculptural Expressions: Seven Artists in Metal and Drawing, 1947-1960, October - November 1985, p. 24, illustrated and p. 22

Wade Saunders, “Touch and Eye: ‘50s Sculpture,” Art in America, December 1962, p. 97

William Zimmer, “Sculptors Explored In Yonkers Show,” The New York Times, 3 November 1985, p. 26WC