开展对全国古代书画鉴定工作是从20世纪60年代初开始的。当时在周恩来总理的关怀下,由文化部文物局组成了以张珩为组长、韩慎先和谢稚柳为成员的鉴定小组从事此项工作。但是刚刚开始进行,小组成员韩慎先(夏山楼主)和组长张珩不幸于1962年和1963年相继去世,鉴定工作因而中辍。后文物局又指派文博研究所副所长王辉重新组织专家继续进行此项工作,而不久发生十年动乱,致使这项工作完全停顿。党的十一届三中全会以后,文物战线进行拨乱反正,恢复全国古代书画鉴定的工作又重新提到议事日程。首先提议的是谢稚柳和王冶秋夫人高履芳(时任文物出版社社 To carry out the identification of ancient painting and calligraphy from the beginning of the 1960s. At that time, under the care of Premier Zhou Enlai, an appraisal group composed of Zhang Heng as head of the Cultural Relics Bureau, Han Shenxian and Xie Zhiliu as a member was involved in the work. However, it was just beginning. Han Shixian (the landlord of Xia Shan) and Zhang Heng, leader of the group, unfortunately, died one after another in 1962 and 1963, thus terminating the appraisal work. After the Bureau of Cultural Relics and Designated Wang Bo, deputy director of the Institute of Science reorganization of experts to continue this work, and soon a decade of turmoil, resulting in a complete halt of this work. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, the antiquities on the cultural relics were rectified, and the work of restoring the identification of ancient calligraphy and painting throughout the country was revisited on the agenda. The first proposal is Xie Zhiliu and Mrs. Wang Yeqiu Gao Luofang (when the relics Publishing House