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Show H. C. PRICK SECURES A PICTURE BY VELASQUEZ NEW YORK. March L TIenry C. Flick has just added to the noted colic, col-ic, Hon of paintings In his Flfih avenue home her- n three-quarter length portrait por-trait of King Philip IV of Spain, one nf the best examples of the work o! elasques, Mr Frtck Is said to have paid 1500,001s for it The sale tanks as the largest of l ho present year. It matches the purchase of another Velasquez, the portrait por-trait of the duke of Olivarei by Mrs. C. P Huntington last year for 1400,000 and given by her to l be Hispanic museum In memory of her husband. According to the archives of the royal palace In Madrid, the painting was finished fin-ished by Velasnuez in three days during the winter of 1644, |