Knowing what you own
is only the beginning.
Know where it is. Know where it has been.
PYLOS keeps the identity, ownership, custody, location and history of every physical artwork connected in one continuous record.
PYL-00243
Untitled · 2026
- Private Collection
- Collector
- Madrid
PYL-00243
- Private Collection
- Museum
- London
- Museum Loan
Ownership is only one part
of the record.
A work can still belong to you while someone else physically holds it somewhere else. PYLOS keeps ownership, custody and location separate — and connected.
Private Collection
Museum
London
The work had a life
before it reached you.
Acquisition is the beginning of your stewardship.
The work's history began before.
PYL-00243
- Invoice
- Previous provenance information
- Exhibition documentation
- Artist
- Studio
- Produced
- Artist
- Gallery
- Paris
- Consigned / Exhibited
- Private Collection
- Collector
- Madrid
- Acquired
- Private Collection
- Collector
- Second residence
- Moved
- Private Collection
- Specialist Storage
- Barcelona
- Stored
- Private Collection
- Museum
- London
- Loaned / Exhibited
- Private Collection
- Collector
- Madrid
- Returned
Provenance is history,
not a paragraph.
When acquisitions, movements, loans and exhibitions are recorded as they happen, the history of the work can accumulate over time.
Where is it now?
One collection can exist physically across several rooms, properties, storage facilities, galleries and institutions. PYLOS keeps the physical location attached to the work.
PYL-00243
Untitled · 2026
PYL-00417
Blue Study · 2018
PYL-00528
Untitled #14 · 03 / 15
PYL-00602
Red Form · 2022
PYL-00831
Standing Form · 2024
Every physical object
has its own history.
- Untitled
- Oil on canvas · 2026
- Unique
- Private Collection
- Untitled #14
- Pigment print · 40 × 60 cm
- 15 + 2 AP
- 03 / 15
- Private Collection
A collector may own both unique works and individual units from editions. PYLOS keeps the correct identity structure for each: Artwork → Production variant → Physical unit → History.
One collection.
Many individual histories.
PYL-00243
Oil on canvas
PYL-00417
Work on paper
PYL-00528
Print · 03 / 15
PYL-00602
Bronze · 2 / 6
A collection is not one record. It is many physical identities, locations and histories connected through one archive.
Rows can store information. Relationships preserve context.
Built for objects that live in the world.
Collecting
is also stewardship.
Ownership may last years or generations. The record around the work should be able to last with it.
Already have a collection database?
Bring it with you.
Already managing your collection in spreadsheets or another artwork-management system? We're designing PYLOS so existing records can move with you instead of forcing you to rebuild your collection from zero.
Managing a collection for someone else?
PYLOS can also support collection managers and art advisors responsible for knowing what exists, where it is and what has happened to it.