O'Keeffe's botanical still life compositions share Sanyu's simplified, modernist approach to plant forms, reducing organic subjects to their essential shapes and lines within serene, minimal arrangements.

Qi Baishi's elegant botanical paintings reflect the same Chinese aesthetic sensibility and minimalist restraint seen in Sanyu's potted plant, using spare compositions to convey quiet beauty in natural subjects.

Twombly's late botanical series captures plant subjects with a refined, meditative economy of mark making that resonates with Sanyu's serene and modernist treatment of still life botanical forms.