Joan B. Mirviss calls herself a contrarian. So perhaps it is not surprising that she has just opened a gallery in Manhattan, even as rising rents increasingly cause antiques dealers to close their shops and sell privately. For the last 30 years, Ms. Mirviss has been a pioneering dealer in Japanese fine art and antiques. She has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions on Japanese art, including one in 1995 at the Phoenix Art Museum showing Frank Lloyd Wright's collection of surimono, privately published woodblock prints.
Her new gallery, Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., at 39 East 78th Street, will sell antique Japanese screens, woodblock prints, hanging scrolls, bronzes, baskets and contemporary ceramics. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art last year purchased four pieces of contemporary Japanese ceramic art from her.) The gallery's prices range from $350 for a sake cup to $200,000 for a painting.
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