虽然亨利•马蒂斯（Henri Matisse）因绘画而广为人知，但他在1900年至1954年去世之间也经常从事雕刻工作。他的雕刻作品包括八百多件作品，构成了一个巨大的视觉库，完整地记录了他的创作过程以及他将所见变成艺术的方式。这本书是作为在马德里基金会（Fundación Canal de Madrid）举办的“Matisse：Grabador”（马蒂斯：雕刻师）展览的一部分出版的，其中包括他的63幅版画，在这些作品中我们可以看出这位画家在绘画中所遵循的观察过程。

Henri Matisse is universally known for his painting, but he also worked regularly as an engraver between 1900 and his death in 1954. His engraving work encompasses more than eight hundred pieces that comprise a gigantic visual library, offering a complete document about his working process and his way of transforming what he saw into art. This book, published as part of the exhibition 'Matisse: Grabador' (Matisse: Engraver) at the Fundación Canal de Madrid, includes 63 of his engravings, in which we can identify the same observation process that the artist followed in his drawings. This is a fascinating work that reveals a different Matisse, one that is more intimate and close, yet each work contains the keys of his universal genius.