# David Rankin artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:57:01.090Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Oil painting, Acrylic on canvas, Works on paper, Prints, Sculpture, Ceramics

## About David Rankin

David Rankin is an Australian artist born in 1946 and described in published biographical material as based in New York. He is known principally as a painter, working predominantly in oil and acrylic on canvas, while also producing works on paper, prints, sculpture, and ceramics. This broad practice means collectors may encounter his name across several object categories rather than only on paintings. Library authority records identify him as “Rankin, David, 1946-,” an important distinction because several other people share the same name. A public biographical summary also reports an extensive international exhibition history and representation in museum and institutional collections. For appraisal and entity matching, the most reliable starting points in the collected evidence are his birth year, Australian identity, and the medium of the object. No movement, named series, or recurring subject is assigned here because the source pack does not provide adequate institution-grade support for those classifications.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter David Rankin’s oil and acrylic paintings on canvas most often in biographical descriptions of his practice. Works on paper, prints, sculptures, and ceramics are also documented. The collected sources do not provide enough evidence to identify recurring subjects, named series, edition formats, or characteristic date periods.

## Market and appraisal context

David Rankin appears across a substantial Appraisily auction-record input set, but record volume by itself does not establish the value of an individual work. Comparisons should first separate oil or acrylic paintings from works on paper, prints, sculpture, and ceramics. Relevant public records can then be examined by object type, sale date, and realized price when those details are available. The collected pack does not establish how dimensions, condition, provenance, date, attribution, or edition status influenced particular results, so those characteristics require object-specific documentation. Careful identity matching is also necessary because David Rankin is a shared name and unrelated records could distort a comparison.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records and auction-house context, including sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates sourced identity evidence from object-specific valuation conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1176262
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47651787/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rankin_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rankin
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-rankin/