Hepworth created biomorphic abstract bronze sculptures with richly textured surfaces and vertical totemic compositions that share the same organic yet structured formal language seen in this Penalba work. Both artists worked in Paris midcentury and developed a vocabulary of stacked and interlocking organic forms with dark patinated bronze finishes.

Chillida produced monumental bronze sculptures combining geometric and organic forms with heavily textured surfaces rising vertically from solid bases, closely paralleling the formal and material qualities of this Penalba homage. His work shares the same meditative gravity and dialogue between mass and void that characterizes this totemic bronze.

Étienne-Martin created vertical totemic bronze and mixed media sculptures with stacked accumulations of biomorphic forms and deeply textured surfaces, working in the same Parisian midcentury milieu as Penalba with a comparable emphasis on primal organic architectures rising from a grounded base.