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| Shared Passions |
Framing the Future
Regan Good
08/02/2004
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In the aftermath of his frenzied day,
Cartin elects to skip the auction. The 55-year-old chairman of CLS, a Hartford,
Conn.-based electrical equipment distributor founded by his grandfather, comes
to New York every spring to take in the contemporary art scene and to buy if the
mood strikes.
 His contemporary art collection, with works by luminaries such
as Mark Lombardi, Tom Sachs and Agnes Martin, now numbers more than 2,000
pieces. The bulk of his still-growing assemblage is on display in his home in
Del Ray Beach, Fla. At the thought of his art someday going to assorted bidders,
like the Whitney collection, he shrugs. He does not buy art, he admits, with the
goal of gathering a collection to hold for posterity.
“The idea of having a
wing named after you?” he muses. “I have never thought of such a thing. I don’t
have any need to keep the collection together, or have my name attached to it. I
don’t see it being in itself a readable or coherent entity. It’s just a whole
bunch of crazy stuff. It would be like bringing my collection of socks in and
asking someone to exhibit them.”
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