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Show PAINTINGS I EXPENSIVE I Half a Million Dollars H For Three Days' Work M of an Artist H New York, March 1. Henry O.'' Prick has Just added to tho noted col j lection of pointings In his Fifth ave- nue home here a thras-qunrtcrOength. portrait of King Philip IV of Spain, H one of the best examples of the work; of Velasquez. , H Mr. Frick Is said to have paid $500,- H 000 for. it The sale 'ranks as tho H largest of the present year. It match- H ee the purchase of another Velae- quez, the portrait of the, Xhike oC ' H Olivares, by Mrs. C P. Huntington H last year for $400,000 and given by H ber to the Hispanic Museum in mem- H ory of her husband. According to the archives of the H royal palace in Madrid, the palnui.g H was finished by Velasquez in three days during the winter of 1G44. H |