The owner of a gallery selling Japanese art that is opening in two weeks on 78th Street at Madison Avenue is backing into her new project. Joan Mirviss, a private dealer of Japanese fine art in America, Japan, and Europe will be turning her art dealing business, Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., into a gallery. "I'm doing everything backwards, as I always have done," the Japanese specialist of 30 years said. "this is a new challenge."
Two pieces are seminal in the career of Ms. Mirviss, who sells to more than 45 museums and has accrued several hundred avid clients who buy art from her on a regular basis. Both decorate her home: a clay vase made by Kamoda Shoji, considered the most important Japanese artist of the 20th century, and a sliding door panel mounted as a screen.
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