{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":92,"auction_id":1,"set_id":1,"lot_number":"56","artist":"Brian Uhing (b. 1975)","title":"Song of Cerberus","starting_price":2400000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right)\ndated 2021","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"30” x 24” (76 cm x 61 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"At first glance, Brian Uhing’s works boast the classic technique of Western art – the composition is perfect, the colors balanced, the perspective aligned. But upon closer look, the art takes on a strange and unusual form; suddenly there is an anachronistic phone in a period artwork, a woman’s hair growing into a tree’s foliage, a puzzle piece taken from a woman’s chest. Herein lies Uhing’s brilliance – he is a master at blending the conservative and the surrealist. <br /><br />\nUhing paints in the classical Flemish and Venetian styles but injects them with playful touches of surrealism in a style reminiscent of old masters. “My parents believed in the\npowerful influence of books on art, so I grew up immersed in the images of the old masters,” he said in an ANCX interview. “I loved how their works appear submerged in deep water and would give off their own faint light. It just filled me with this haunting, romantic feeling.” <br /><br />\nIn this 2021 work entitled The Song of Cerberus, Uhing successfully marries the richness of Titian’s work with the humor of René Magritte. Drawn a la the classical portraits of the masters, Uhing’s surrealist touches come through the details he adds throughout, with the hair of the subject transforming midway into a fluffy poodle. The splashes of humor are not added on a whim, with Uhing saying, “[Those] elements are not added for the sake of being fanciful and strange, but are tightly meshed within the narrative of the piece. My work requires that you take the time to string together the story, and in there lies the reward!” (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":56,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/1/1/lot/56.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":55,"next":57,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}