Cecily Brown similarly explores the female figure with charged sensuality and psychological intensity, using loose gestural mark making to create hazy dreamlike atmospheres that balance provocation with emotional vulnerability, closely mirroring Yuskavage's approach in Golden Bunny.

Currin shares Yuskavage's provocative yet tender treatment of figurative subjects rendered in warm luminous tones, blending playful whimsy with psychological complexity in contemporary figurative works that similarly court discomfort and desire simultaneously.

Dumas works extensively in pastel and ink on paper to depict figures with a similarly vulnerable and psychologically loaded quality, building richly saturated yet delicate surfaces that evoke dreamlike atmospheres and probe the tension between innocence and eroticism.