Without Picasso, Francis Bacon might never have taken up a paintbrush and thus deprived the world of one of the 20th century giants of the art world, according to a Paris exhibition.

• 没有毕卡索，法兰西斯．培根或许压根儿不会拿起画笔，世人也将因此失去一名二十世纪艺术世界的巨擘，根据一个巴黎展览指出。