Oil On Canvas, A Glance Behind, Budwin Conn (American/British, 1927–2007)

Condition: The canvas shows minor edge wear with small losses to corners; slight surface soiling and light abrasions consistent with age.
 
Oil on canvas, unframed
60 x 73cm.
 
Budwin Conn (American/British, 1927–2007)
Oil on canvas, unframed60 x 73cm.A Glance Behind
Oil on canvas
In A Glance Behind, Budwin Conn captures an intimate, almost cinematic moment, freezing his subject mid-turn as they cast a glance over their shoulder. The casual attire—oversized t-shirt, athletic shorts, trainers and teal cap—roots the image firmly in its late 20th-century context, yet the composition and handling of form evoke classical traditions of figure study. The soft modelling of musculature contrasts with the dynamic tension in the pose, suggesting both stillness and latent movement. Conn’s sensitive rendering of everyday contemporary life reveals his enduring interest in human presence, gesture and quiet psychological narrative.