P14 王紱：山亭文会図

王紱: 山亭文会圖

王紱（1362－1416），無錫人。字孟端，號友石生、九龍山人。性高潔絕俗，善詩文，工書畫。竹師倪瓚，山水學王蒙，創自家畫風。是幅為其四十三歲時作品，畫山亭文會景，筆墨老辣渾厚。

王紱：山亭文会図

人格高潔で知られた王紱は、明初に重要な位置を占める画人。王蒙を師とする山水は、一種独特の風格をそなえます。渓山の奥ふかく、茅亭に文人が相つどい、清談雅遊のうちに時を忘れる。幽韻ただよい雅趣あふれる、王紱五十三歳、晩年の老辣渾厚たる筆致の力作です。

Wang Fu : A Gathering of Literati in a Mountain Bower

Wang Fu (1362-1416) was a native of Wu-hsi, Kiangsu province. His style name was Meng-tuan, and his sobriquets were Yu-shih and Chiu-lung shan-jen. He held high principles and shunned mundanity by nature, was gifted in poetry and prose, and was talented in calligraphy and painting. He first won fame as a painter of bamboo and rocks following the manner of Ni Tsan, but later studied the style of Wang Meng and established a unique demeanor in landscape painting. This work, in which opulent brushstrokes depict a gathering of men of noble character in a mountain bower, is a masterpiece produced when he was forty-three.