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Tales of the Unexpected :: Skin (02x02)
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| Title: | Skin |
| Episode #: | 02x02 |
| Original Airdate: | Saturday March 08th, 1980 |
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Years earlier, Drioli knew a Russian painter named Soutine. On a whim, he had Soutine paint a portait of his wife Josie on his back, and then taught the artist his own specialty, tattooing. Using that new skill, Soutine tattooed over his painting, preserving the art for all time. Time passes, and Drioli has fallen on back luck. His wife died during the war and no one seems to want tattoos any longer. Now a vagrant living from garbage cans, Drioli realizes what he has when he sees an exhibition of Soutine's work in a gallery. Revealing his tattoo, he faces a choice between a man who will pay him a small fortune to have the skin removed from his back, and another man who will treat him to a life of luxury at a hotel, where all he'll have to do is wear bathing trunks so that guests may view a "living work of art." His choice seems clear, but is it?
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Chaim Soutine is a real painter. Born near Minsk in what is now Belarus, he emigrated to France where he pursued an art career, painting most of his works between 1920 and 1930. It wasn't until the late thirties that he was recognized as a great painter, very shortly before the untimely end of his life: forced to flee the Germans (because he was a Jew), Soutine succumbed to a perforated stomach ulcer in 1943.
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