Camille Pissarro is considered the founding figure of the Impressionist movement in France. His artistic beginnings lay in the Caribbean and South America. These roots were combined with a painterly interest in everyday rural scenes and sympathies for anarchism.  
Pissarro's motifs are often modest, their tone gentle. It is only at second glance that the charm of their carefully observed details and finely tuned harmonies is revealed, arising from the artist's respectful, idealistic attitude, his openness and his love of experimentation. The variety of subjects in his paintings includes landscapes and gardens, family portraits, scenes of rural life or urban motifs such as the ports of Normandy or the bustling streets of Paris.

Based on the seven paintings by Pissarro in the Hasso Plattner Collection, The Honest Eye. Camille Pissarro's Impressionism provides a well-founded overview of Pissarro's entire oeuvre with over 100 works from 50 international collections and at the same time shows the social utopian ideas of his art. In addition to the Denver Art Museum as a cooperation partner of the show, numerous renowned US collections have been acquired as lenders, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Further international lenders include the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Ordrupgaard, Kopenhagen, the Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, the Courtauld and the National Gallery, London, as well as the Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.