Gaganendranath Tagore was a painter of the Bengal School. Consider th…

Gaganendranath Tagore was a painter of the Bengal School. Consider the following statements about him:

(A) He made caricatures that made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living.

(B) He painted City in the Night in watercolour.

(D) He painted Journey’s End, in which a collapsed camel is shown against a red background of dusk.

How many of the statements given above are correct?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → Three

(A) He made caricatures that made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living. — Correct. He was deeply interested in caricatures and often made fun of such Bengalis in them.
(B) He painted City in the Night in watercolour. — Correct. City in the Night is a watercolour painting made by him.
(C) He was the brother of Abanindranath Tagore. — Correct. He was the brother of Abanindranath Tagore.
(D) He painted Journey’s End, in which a collapsed camel is shown against a red background of dusk. — Incorrect. Journey’s End, with its collapsed camel, was made by Abanindranath Tagore.

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): “Pan-Asianism and Modernism … It is in the paintings by Gaganendranath Tagore, brother of Abanindranath Tagore, that the influence of modern western style of paintings can be clearly seen. He made several paintings using Cubist style, in which building interiors were created out of geometric patterns. Besides, he was deeply interested in making caricatures, in which he often made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living.”

“City in the Night This is a watercolour painting made by Gaganendranath Tagore (1869 –1938) in 1922. He was one of the earlier Indian painters, who made use of language and syntax of Cubism to render his ideas.…”

“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.…”