石渠寶笈三編(延春閣),第四冊,頁1586&*故宮書畫錄(卷五),第三冊,頁172-173&*故宮書畫圖錄,第四冊,頁3-4&*1.胡賽蘭,〈李衎四季平安圖〉,收入石守謙、葛婉章主編,《大汗的世紀:蒙元時代的多元文化與藝術》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,2001年初版),頁293。 &*李衎(西元一二四五-一三二○年),河北薊丘人。字仲賓,號息齋道人。拜集賢殿大學士,追封薊國公。善畫竹,著【竹譜】行於世。 【酉陽雜俎】載,北都惟童子寺有竹一窠,纔長數尺,相傳其寺綱維,每日竹報平安。本幅墨竹四株,題用此事,蓋取其吉利也。竹竿如作篆書,圓勁有力。竹葉用墨,深淺相間,漸遠漸澹,嫋嫋如在輕煙薄霧中。&*Li K'an, a native of Hopeh province, was a Grand Academician at the Hall of Scholarly Worthies. A skilled painter of bamboo, he wrote a manual on bamboo painting that became widely popular. Tuan Ch'eng-wu (9th c.), in his Yu-yang tsa-tsu, wrote that only the T'ung-tzu Temple in the northern capital had a clump of bamboo to which the abbot reportedly would convey blessings of peace. The inscription of this ink painting of four bamboo refers to the story, hence invoking its felicitous associations. For the bamboo stems, Li handled the brush as though doing seal script calligraphy with round, strong strokes. The leaves are rendered with pale to dark ink to suggest space and the effect of leaves gently fading into the mist.