Varo was Carrington's closest contemporary and friend, producing oil paintings with the same alchemical symbolism, biomorphic figures in dreamlike landscapes, and mystical feminine archetypes seen in El ermitaño. Her tower imagery, swirling organic forms, and mythological narratives are nearly interchangeable in spirit and technique with this specific work.

Sage painted desolate surrealist landscapes featuring phallic architectural tower structures and eerie psychological symbolism in oil on panel, closely mirroring the architectural and symbolic tension between the swirling organic figure and the golden tower in El ermitaño. Her palette and brooding visionary mood align deeply with Carrington's mid century surrealist language.

Tanning created richly symbolic oil paintings featuring biomorphic figures, uncanny dreamlike interiors and landscapes, and feminine archetypes rooted in psychological and mythological narrative, all qualities central to El ermitaño. Her mid century surrealist works share Carrington's dense symbolic vocabulary and the same unsettling yet luminous figurative abstraction.