Giacometti's charcoal and pencil figure drawings share the same quality of suggesting human presence through gestural, searching marks rather than precise outlines, creating a similar tension between abstraction and figuration in monochrome works of the same postwar era.

Wols created deeply gestural charcoal and ink drawings in postwar France that similarly dissolve the human figure into expressive abstract marks, sharing de Staël's minimalist monochrome approach and existential mood.

Fautrier's figure works from the same postwar French context use a similar reductive, gestural language to evoke human presence with minimal means, blending abstraction and figuration in a serene yet emotionally charged monochrome sensibility.