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Döden, rökande, med lie över axeln This late work features Arosenius's most potent figure of Death, as a towering figure standing over a landscape with tiny, fleeing people. A cigar and pince-nez lend Death an aristocratic air, as if he has grown wealthy from years of bountiful harvests.
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Krig In this early drawing, Arosenius fancifully depicts a skeletal Death lounging on a hillside, smoking a cigarette as an army conducts its deadly work in the background. The drawing presages later work by the likes of Otto Dix, who would depict the carnage and misery of World War One in a more fully realized (but not dissimilar) manner.
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Självporträtt med pil i blödande hjärta This drawing is one of many in which Arosenius identifies his hemophilia with his unrequited love for the actress Ester Sahlin, a member of his circle. Being a deeply personal work from the archives, it makes no concessions to subtlety or restraint.
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Livet och döden Here Arosenius expresses the brevity of life in the short distance between voluptuous life and skeletal death.
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Uggla med dödskallehuvud An owl with the hollow eyes of a skull gazes over a twilit rural landscape. In this late work, Arosenius envisions death as a silent, watchful, and patient predator.
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Trollkarlen och kvinnofågeln This most desolate item from a narrative group of paintings depicts Arosenius in Orientalist garb as a young wizard, his bleeding heart being plucked out by a carrion bird.
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Det brustna hjärtat A callipygian fairy, standing in for actress and Arosenius crush Ester Sahlin, makes off with the artist's heart. He sits dismayed and spurting blood, as blood-spraying demons swoop in from behind.
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Självporträtt på moln This most stylized and abstracted of Arosenius's works is something of a mystery. The inscription reads, ""Fan, vad jag är begåfvad!", roughly translated: "damn, how gifted I am!" What are we to make of this commentary? The distorted Arosenius sits on a cloud. Is he dead, or merely disconnected from the cityscape below? Is it a position of elevation, alienation, or confusion? Is he dead?
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Solnedgång Arosenius, in his typical long coat and shabby hat, summons a host of devils and serpents with his flute. A red rising sun and pair of six-pointed stars drip blood as a cityscape on the horizon burns.
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Döden