Cecily Brown creates figurative oil paintings with a similarly painterly and expressive handling of surface, where the physicality of the paint itself becomes part of the subject. Her portraits and figure works share a comparable intimacy and contemporary looseness of brushwork.

Marlene Dumas is renowned for intimate, psychologically charged figurative portraits of women rendered with muted tones and expressive mark making that closely mirrors Olowska's approach to female identity and portraiture. Both artists foreground mood and interiority over precise realism.

Chantal Joffe paints intimate figurative portraits of women and girls in oil on canvas with a painterly, gestural quality and muted palette that strongly echoes the mood and visual language of this Olowska portrait. Her recurring interest in clothing, adornment, and female subjectivity aligns closely with this specific work.