Julien Nguyên, Julian the Apostate, oil on wood panel, signed and dated 2017 on the reverse, 91.4 by 61 cm. Sold for 3,937,000 HKD at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5 april 2023, lot 1101. © Julien Nguyên. Courtesy Sotheby's.

Provenance: Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited: Cincinnati, CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Julien Nguyen Returns, February - June 2019.

Note: “Desire and reverence are very closely linked in my mind. There’s also fear and desire. The tension between fear and awe and the sublime – that something that is beautiful can be both frightening and attracting – links to a certain idea of ancient experience.”
—JULIEN NGUYEN, QUOTED IN GIANNA SAMMS, “JULIEN NGUYEN”, THEGUIDE.ART, 26 JUNE 2021 (ONLINE)