P47 文徴明：古木寒泉図

文徴明: 古木寒泉圖

文徵明（1470－1559），長洲人。初名璧，字徵明，後以字行，又字徵仲，號衡山、停雲生。畫師沈周，使吳派文人畫大成於世。是幅為文徵明八十高齡所畫之傑作，絹本設色，粗筆長幅，構圖之奇，用筆之神，在文徵明晚年畫中實屬罕見。

文徴明：古木寒泉図

明中期に九十の生涯を全うした文徴明は、画においては南宗画中興の祖といわれます。本作は歳八十、長条絹本の大画面に精力横溢の筆致が躍動する、晩年充実の一作。垂直に落下する白瀑、天に伸びあがる蒼松と螺旋状に絡みあう古柏。大胆な構図と粗放の用筆が圧倒的です。

Wen Cheng-ming : Old Trees by a Cold Stream

Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1559) was a native of Ch'ang-chou (Soochow). His original name was Pi and his style name was Cheng-ming, by which he became known later, and thus he assumed another style name Cheng-chung. His sobriquets were Heng-shan and T'ing-yun-sheng. He studied painting under Shen Chou and brought the Wu school literati painting to its perfection. This piece, produced when he was eighty, is a rare example among Wen Cheng-ming's works that is depicted in rough brushwork on a large silk artwork plane.