Anthony Patton Art · Quick Start
Checking your painting
Every original carries a chip on the back, a code under the varnish and a record the artist signed. Here's how to use them.
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Find the chip
It's a small disc on the back of the work. Inside is a key that was written in once and can never be read out.
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Hold your phone to it
Most phones need no app. A page opens saying whether the code the chip just made is genuine.
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Tap once more
Do it within two minutes. A second new code shows the chip itself is answering, not a link someone saved.
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Shine a UV torch on the back
Ten characters, written on the back, glow under an ordinary UV torch. In daylight you won't see them.
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Type the code in
Go to
anthonypatton.art/verifyand type the ten characters. It opens the page for the work they identify. Spaces and dashes don't matter. -
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Keep your papers
Your certificate and invoice, plus the digital record: the artist's signed record of the work, its signature, two timestamps and your own record of the sale. Keep a copy somewhere safe.
Passing it on
Selling, giving or lending the work? Tell the artist, who records each change of hands privately. Nothing you tap or scan transfers the work, and no page on the site ever shows who owns it.
Looking after it
Don't remove the chip or the label. If the work goes to a restorer or framer, tell them the code is on the back.
What this proves. The chip shows that the artist's chip is on the object in front of you. The code and the signed record show which work it is, and what the artist recorded about it and when. None of them names an owner, and none replaces your invoice as proof of sale.
If a page says Not a genuine tap right after you held your phone to the chip itself, stop and contact the artist before going any further. Any other message is about the check, not about your painting.
The artist signs with the address 0x84908e29337cd6f4ea7660d82bf52204bfe0db50, which is shown in the site's footer and published at anthonypatton.art/exergo-anchor.json. The code shown in these drawings is an example, from the work Bellow.