Observe the image and answer the following question.
Which painting is in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Journey’s End
Option (1) Journey’s End — Correct. The painting shows a collapsed camel in a red background of dusk. It stands for the end of a journey through the end of a day.
Option (2) Camels — Incorrect. Camels is a painting by Amrita Sher-Gil. The work shown here is by Abanindranath Tagore.
Option (3) Coming of Night — Incorrect. Coming of Night is another painting by Abanindranath Tagore, named only in the list of his other works. It is not the painting shown.
Option (4) Mountain Traveller — Incorrect. Mountain Traveller is also one of Abanindranath Tagore’s other works, named in the same list. It is not the painting shown.
NCERT (2026-27): “Journey’s End …Made by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951) in 1913, this painting is in watercolour.… In this painting, a collapsed camel is shown in red background of dusk and in that sense it personifies the end of a journey through the end of a day.… Abanindranath has also painted The Forest, Coming of Night, Mountain Traveller, Queen of the Forest and a series of 45 paintings based on The Arabian Nights.”
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