In Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child, in which colour are the figures painted?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Dull yellow
Option (1) Brick-red — Incorrect. Brick-red is the background, after the terracotta relief of his home village in Bankura.
Option (2) Dull yellow — Correct. The mother and child figures are coloured in dull yellow.
Option (3) Cadmium green — Incorrect. One of the colours Roy used, but not the colour named for the figures.
Option (4) Vermilion — Incorrect. Also one of his colours, not the colour named for the figures.
NCERT (2026-27): “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940. …In this painting, a mother and her child are rendered with bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes. The painting exudes a crude vigour hitherto unknown in Indian art. Figures are coloured in dull yellow and brick-red background, emulating the terracotta relief of his home village in Bankura. …He used Indian red, yellow ocher, cadmium green, vermilion, charcoal gray, cobalt blue and white made from organic material, such as rockdust, tamarind seeds, mercury powder, alluvial mud, indigo and common chalk.”
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