De Kooning's gestural oil paintings similarly blur the boundary between abstraction and figuration, with energetic brushwork and dynamic color fields that echo the visceral quality seen in The Crab and Lizard. His Women series especially shares that tension between recognizable form and expressive painterly dissolution.

Bacon's oil paintings combine raw gestural handling with distorted figurative elements, creating a similarly charged psychological atmosphere where form emerges from and dissolves into painterly chaos. His interest in flesh, creature forms, and visceral mark making resonates strongly with Brown's approach in this work.

Lassnig worked in oil to merge expressive gestural painting with figurative and creature based imagery, producing works where bodily and animal forms feel simultaneously abstract and intensely physical. Her bold color choices and loose handling of form closely parallel the energy and figuration present in The Crab and Lizard.