Painter

Michel TESTARD

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128 Artworks

Memory of Halong Bay II

Oil on Canvas
50x49in

$7,210

Iceland, lava fields

Oil on Canvas
39x59in

$7,810

Ladakh Gompa over a red landscape

Acrylic on Canvas
36x48in

$5,310

Goa, drawing room with a view

Oil on Canvas
24x31in

$3,710

Nagaur bazaar, dukhan shop

Acrylic on Canvas
20x28in

$3,320

Lady face 1

India Ink on Paper
9x6in

$360

Sitarist, Genji style

Acrylic on Canvas
28x20in

$3,200

Nine Men Portraits III

Watercolor, Gouache on Paper
31x24in

$3,340

Rural India, ladies carrying water from a sacred pond

Acrylic on Paper
17x24in

$2,690

Lady face 5

India Ink on Paper
9x6in

$490

Nine Men Portraits V

Watercolor, Gouache on Paper
31x24in

$3,340

Yogi gurukul in the jungle

Acrylic, Ink on Paper
12x17in

$1,950

Sitarist in blue over green

Oil on Canvas
40x30in

$5,510

Benares ghats near Aurengzeb mosque

Watercolor, Gouache on Paper
12x17in

$1,950

Hazy moon on a blue landscape

Acrylic on Canvas
30x48in

$5,040

Fairy Fort on a high rock

Pastel on Paper
9x13in

$1,440

Iceland glacier, near Kirkjubaejarklaustur

Acrylic on Paper
17x24in

$2,940

Bikaner high street at dusk

Acrylic on Canvas
15x22in

$3,180

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Goa, the Mirror Room

Acrylic on Paper
12x9in

$1,690

Lady face 4

India Ink on Paper
9x6in

$490

Benares Ghats

Acrylic on Canvas
19x26in

$3,200

Sitarist in blue cubist tone

Acrylic on Canvas
39x31in

$5,510

Goa, room with a view

Acrylic on Canvas
39x28in

$4,590

Rajasthan Fort in ruin

Pen, India Ink on Paper
8x12in

$1,440

Michel TESTARD

France

Credentials

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Michel Testard
wandering painter of faraway worlds

Born in Tokyo and raised in Japan and Vietnam, I later lived in Africa, the UK and for twenty years in India. These places were not stops on a journey but temporary homelands, each leaving their own colour and rhythm within me. I paint what has marked me: a bend of the Ganges at dawn, the mineral light of Ladakh, Icelandic wilderness, the twilight of Rajasthani bazaars, the meditative atmosphere of Indian classical music. At times the real shifts into the imaginary — Goan rooms opening onto the sea, murmuring jungles, humorous portraits of musicians, rajas and yogis. My style is spontaneous and expressionist, guided by intuition and shaped by colour, emotion and memory. I paint to honour the faraway worlds that continue to inhabit me.

You can also check out my Indian Chronicles, written under the pen name François-Xavier Croisy:
https://asialyst.com/fr/?s=Fran%C3%A7ois+Xavier+Croisy

2026

' Portraits Imaginaires ' / LE SAINT JACQUES - Jupilles, France

2024

Glimpses of India / Private apartment - New Delhi, India

2024

Opened Studio / Artist Studio - COURDEMANCHE, France

2023

Glimpses of India II / Rampuria Haveli - Bikaner, India

2023

Pérégrinations Indiennes / Nocogo Gallery - La Chartre sur le Loir, France

2022

Chroniques Indiennes / Caveau des Récollets - Montval sur Loire, France

2022

Chroniques Indiennes / Galerie de la Font - Eus, France

2020

Reminiscence of India / Gallery Art Indus - New Delhi, India

2019

Ephemerides Indiennes / Gallery Lord Byron - Paris, France

2018

Glimpses of India / Bikaner House - New Delhi, India

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