Van Gogh's swirling expressive brushwork animating skies and his vivid depictions of fruit trees and the French countryside are the direct visual precedent for this specific Hockney piece. The undulating patterned sky and lone tree laden with bright color in 'Ma Normandie' explicitly echo Van Gogh's Provence landscapes like 'The Mulberry Tree' and 'Wheat Field with Cypresses'.

Doig shares Hockney's approach to lush European and pastoral landscapes rendered with richly textured, patterned surfaces and vivid unexpected color combinations that animate flat meadows and treelines. His large scale figurative landscape paintings carry the same joyful chromatic intensity and post impressionist expressive mark making visible in 'Ma Normandie'.

Hitchens painted the British and European countryside with broad expressive brushstrokes, vivid greens and contrasting warm accents, and a flattened yet lush sense of meadow and hedgerow that closely mirrors the composition and palette of 'Ma Normandie'. Like Hockney here, Hitchens dissolved landscape into rhythmic color fields while retaining a joyful connection to the specific natural scene before him.