Appel was a core member of the CoBrA movement and shared Dubuffet's devotion to raw, childlike mark making and gestural abstraction on paper, producing similarly dark toned and expressive works that rejected refined technique in favor of primal energy.

Jorn worked extensively with ink, collage, and experimental mixed media during the same postwar period, embracing spontaneous gestural strokes and found material assemblage that closely mirrors the Art Brut sensibility and raw expressive quality seen in this piece.

Twombly's works on paper combine ink based spontaneous scrawling with collage elements and a deliberately unrefined gestural language, producing abstract compositions with a similarly raw and expressive dark toned aesthetic rooted in postwar modernist experimentation.