Liverpool's Tate hosts Belgian surrealist Magritte

4 July 2011 Last updated at 04:47 ET Help

Rene Magritte is one of the world's most familiar artists.

His surreal pictures can be seen on bedroom walls, CD covers and adverts but he has not always been taken seriously in the art world.

Now a new exhibition at the Tate in Liverpool has set out to show how good the bowler-hatted Belgian really was.

David Sillito has been to have a look.

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