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3006 藍瑛 明末/清初 石交 水墨絹本 立軸
一六五九年作
LAN YING (1585-AFTER 1664)
題識：石交。己亥 (1659年) 花朝畫於東皋草堂。蜨叟藍瑛。
CONVERSING WITH ROCK
鈐印：藍瑛之印、田叔
51º x 16Ω in. (130 x 42 cm.), Japanese wood box
Hanging scroll, ink on silk 展覽
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist Kenny Schachter Rove藝廊，《Between a Rock and a Hard Place, The
Dated second month, jihai year (1659) Stone in Art》，倫敦，2006 年6 月20 日–8 月26 日

HK$260,000-400,000 US$34,000-52,000 藍瑛，字田叔，號蜨叟、石頭陀、山公、西湖外民、西湖外史、東郭老農
等，錢塘（今浙江杭州）人。明末清初杰出畫家。工山水、花鳥、竹石，尤
EXHIBITED 以山水聞名。時被歸入「浙派」畫家，亦有人將之稱為「武林派」畫家。一
生筆耕不輟，創作產量甚多。
Kenny Schachter Rove, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, London, 20
June - 26 August 2006 文人畫石首見於五代兩宋間，宋徽宗嗜石聞名，北京故宮博物院仍保存一幅
徽宗親繪的《祥龍石圖》。
Lan Ying was a renowned professional painter from Qiantang in
Zhejiang area, active during the late Ming to early Qing period. 四川省博物館藏一幅藍瑛《靈璧圖》可資參考，著錄於丁文父編2002年北京
Accomplished in the landscape, bird and flower, and bamboo and 出版《中國古典賞石》，圖42號。
rock genres, Lan Ying was most famous for his landscape paintings,
often rendered in the blue-and-green style. He was sometimes
classified by connoisseurs as a painter from the Zhe School, a school
of Zhejiang-based painters active during the Ming dynasty who
continued the lineage of the Southern Song school of painting
pioneered by masters such as Ma Yuan and Xia Gui. Other
connoisseurs contested such classification and placed him in the
ranks of the Wulin School, a school of painters active in Hangzhou
during the late Ming dynasty, who developed distinctive styles based
on the literati paintings by Yuan masters such as Huang Gongwang.
Lan Ying was a prolific painter who continued his painting pursuits
through old age, and produced a considerable number of works
throughout his long career.

The subject matter of rocks first appeared in Chinese literati paintings
around the Five Dynasties and Song periods. The Northern Song
Emperor Huizong was particularly known for his veneration of rocks
and an ink painting of a garden rock by Huizong with his colophon
is preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing and illustrated in Emperor
Huizong and Late Northern Song China, The Politics of Culture and
the Culture of Politics, Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Maggie Bickford,
editors, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and
London, 2006, fig 11.3.

Another painting by Lan Ying is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and illustrated in Wege ins Paradies, oder Die Liebe zum Stein in China,
Herausgegeben von Albert Lutz und Alexandra von Przychowski,
Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 1998, pl.25.

A painting of a Lingbi rock by Lan Ying is in the collection of
Sichuan Provincial Museum, illustrated by David Ren, Classical
Chinese Rocks, Beijing, 2002, fig. 42.

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