P11-boy by Adam Rehama
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Medium: Pencil drawing
Dimensions: 29.7 x 42 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $500.00 USD
Status: available
"P11-boy" is a striking pencil drawing that captures the back of a young boy's head with remarkable detail. The artist employs a monochromatic palette, allowing the intricate textures of the hair to take center stage. The curls are rendered with a series of fine, overlapping lines that create a sense of depth and movement. The composition is tightly focused, with the boy's head occupying most of the A3 paper, emphasizing the texture and form. The work evokes a sense of intimacy and contemplation, inviting the viewer to consider the unseen face and the story behind it. The artist's technique is both precise and expressive, using varying pressures to achieve a rich tonal range. This approach adds a tactile quality to the piece, making the hair almost palpable. The choice to depict the subject from behind adds an element of mystery and universality, as the viewer is left to imagine the boy's expression and identity. Collectors might find "P11-boy" compelling for its masterful execution and emotional resonance. The drawing's focus on texture and form highlights the artist's skill and attention to detail, making it a standout piece in any collection of contemporary works on paper.
Why collect this work?
The concealed face makes recognition depend on contour, posture, and mark density rather than expression.
- The artist profile describes Rehama’s growing concentration on pencil portraits and individual facial character. P11-boy tests that aim by turning the subject away, locating specificity elsewhere in the body.
- In the photograph, a rounded head dominates the sheet, framed by two ears and a tapering neck. Compact, restless marks cover the scalp, while paler strokes leave the shoulders comparatively unresolved.
- The documented pencil medium supports both clustered blacks and lightly grazed passages of exposed paper. Here, those contrasts give the head visual weight without requiring colour.
- Catalogued as a 2025 work on A3 paper, this drawing sharpens a key question in portraiture: how much identity can be conveyed when the face, its usual source of recognition, is withheld?
About the Artist
Adam Rehama
Adam Rehama is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: drawing. Based in Ajman , Sudan.
Nationality: Sudanese
I've been practicing all kind of painting and drawing with different material such pencils watercolor acrilic and oil color with different methods...
