Where is Gaganendranath Tagore’s painting A Cubist City (1925) housed?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
Option (1) Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi — Incorrect. This gallery holds Chittoprasad’s Hungry Bengal (1943).
Option (2) National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi — Incorrect. NGMA holds works such as M. F. Husain’s Farmer’s Family and K. C. S. Paniker’s The Dog.
Option (3) Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata — Correct. Gaganendranath Tagore’s A Cubist City (1925) is in the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata.
Option (4) Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan — Incorrect. It holds Rabindranath Tagore’s Doodle (1920).
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Gaganendranath Tagore used the language of Cubism to create a unique style of his own. His paintings of mysterious halls and rooms were made with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, which were quite different from the Cubist style of famous artist Pablo Picasso, who invented the style using geometrical facets.”
“Gaganendranath Tagore, A Cubist City, 1925. Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India” |
