David Rankin 'Someone ' - Lithograph on Paper architecture The work holds a compelling

The work holds a compelling tension between recognition and ambiguity

making poignant reference to his Jewish ancestry

'The Bay X' 1987

Signed: Signed 'Chas Blackman' lower right

© Charles Blackman / Copyright Agency 2023

David Rankin 'Someone ' - Lithograph on Paper architecture The work holds a compellingThis work forms part of David Rankins series on scenes, faces and stories from the Holocaust. It hopes to give a human or tangible cadence to an otherwise unimaginable event an event which hits close to home, with Rankins wife, Lily Brett, being the descendent of Holocaust survivors. In the words of New York art critic Dore Ashton, Rankin is an exceptionally intellectual artist who is extremely alert to many currents in the history of art, philosophy