石渠寶笈三編(延春閣),第四冊,頁1644&*故宮書畫錄(卷五),第三冊,頁236&*故宮書畫圖錄,第五冊,頁79-80&*1.劉芳如,〈元陳立善墨梅〉,收入國立故宮博物院編輯委員會編,《畫梅名品特展》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,1991年元月初版),頁84-85。 &*陳立善,生卒年不詳,黃巖(浙江會稽)人。順帝至正元年(西元一三四一年),官任慶元路照磨。作品流傳最晚見於至正二十五年(西元一三六五年)。 陳立善畫墨梅,和王冕(西元一二八七-一三五九年)同樣的綜合了圈瓣和倒暈的方式,但相較之下,王冕所作典雅細緻,陳立善之作則疏枝淡蕊,脫略形似,有寫意的趣味。&*Ch'en Li-shan, whose birth and death dates ate unknown, was a native of Huang-yen (modern K'uai-chi, Chekiang). In 1341, he served as Record Keeper of the Ch'ing-yuan Circuit, and his latest surviving work dates from 1365. Ch'en Li-shan excelled at painting plum blossoms using monochrome ink. Like Wang Mien (1287-1359), he combined the "circular-petal" and "reverse-halo" methods of blossoms. However, compared with Wang Mien, Wang's works appear more elegant and refined. In Ch'en's paintings, the branches and blossoms also are sparser. They are further abstracted from their natural forms, having more of the manner associated with the "sketching ideas" tradition of painting.