1895
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Le Buddha is a 1895 ink by Odilon Redon, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a shadowy figure standing beside a giant, smooth shape that looks like a shell or a wave. The background is dark with a faint, glowing circle at the top, like a moon or eye. The person’s face is simple but serious, and their body blends into the swirling lines around them. The artist used soft, smudged lines to make everything feel dreamy and unclear. The title says *Le Buddha*, but the figure doesn’t look quite like the usual statues of Buddha. Next, check out how this artist used lithography to create such strange, ghostly images.
Born Bertrand-Jean Redon on 20 April 1840 in Bordeaux, the artist adopted the name Odilon from his mother, Marie-Odile.
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