David Rankin: career timeline

Australian · b. 1946 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 32 of 41 lots (77% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

David Rankin: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1980s	20	19	$1.9kSign up	Oil
1990s	7	6	$732Sign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1980s 20 works

Sold: 19 of 20
Median: $1.9kSign up
Average: $2.3kSign up
Typical size: 48 × 65.5 in (122 × 167 cm)
Mediums: Oil (16), Pastel (1), Etching (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (3), Sunsets & night (3), Sea & coast (2)

1980 Coastal Ridge$7.3kSign up
1982 Lily Brett (the artist's wife)$173Sign up
1984 Lake by the Coast$2.5kSign up
1984 Grays Point, River Flat$2.1kSign up
1984 Life along the Coast (Port Hacking Landscape)$4.1kSign up · sold 2×
1985 Sandstone Headland and Black Scrub$1.9kSign up
1985 Coastal Sandstone$457Sign up
1986 Ochre Landscape and Fence$2kSign up
1986 Longridge$1.9kSign up
1986 River Flat and Magroves$2.1kSign up
1986 Bush Scrub$1.2kSign up
1987 Quiet Refrain$1.3kSign up

Show 8 more (1980s)

1987 UntitledUnsold
1987 The Bay at Night$4.6kSign up
1987 Second Rain$5.7kSign up
1989 Jerusalem Night I$463Sign up · sold 3×
1989 Jerusalem Window Nocturne$1.4kSign up
1989 Ridge with Scrub$764Sign up
1989 Blue Evening, Jerusalem$1.7kSign up
1989 Jerusalem Hillside$1.3kSign up

1990s 7 works

Sold: 6 of 7
Median: $732Sign up
Average: $973Sign up
Typical size: 30 × 37 in (76 × 94 cm)
Mediums: Oil (3), Mixed media (3), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: Landscapes (3), Sunsets & night (1), Sea & coast (1)

1990 Green Hillside$2.3kSign up
1990 Golden Light$1.8kSign up · sold 3×
1990 Golden Ochre LandscapeUnsold
1991 Evening Mist I$1.4kSign up
1992 Summer Coast$109Sign up
1994 Untitled - Orange Landscape$113Sign up
1994 Untitled - Brown & Blue Landscape$113Sign up

Creation date not recorded

8 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 6 works

Sold: 5 of 6
Median: $228Sign up
Average: $825Sign up
Typical size: 35.5 × 36.5 in (90 × 93 cm)
Mediums: Oil (2), Lithograph (2), Etching (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

sold 2014 Standing Figures$3kSign up
sold 2017 (LOCATION SYDNEY OFFICE - all enquiries phone 02 9362 9045)Unsold
sold 2017 (on view only in Sydney, items to be collected from Sydney at purchasers expense)$228Sign up
sold 2018 Untitled$577Sign up
sold 2018 Black Scrub$197Sign up
sold 2018 (LOCATION SYDNEY OFFICE - all enquiries phone 02 9362 9045)$76Sign up · sold 2×

Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $844Sign up
Average: $844Sign up
Typical size: 58 × 50 in (148 × 127 cm)
Mediums: Etching (1), Oil (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 Untitled$371Sign up
sold 2021 Brothers$1.3kSign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All David Rankin auction results →