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Frick Pays Big Price for Painting New York, April 18.—Franz Fal's "Portrait of a Woman," one of the important examples of the famous Dutch painter's works in this country and which was sold at the Charles T. Yerkes art sale in Mendelssohn Hall April 7 to Knoedler & Co., art dealers, for the record price of $137,000, is to remain in America after all. It has been purchased by Henry C. Frick, who has placed it in his New York Home at No. 640 Fifth avenue. "Yes; it is true that I have purchased the portrait," said Mr. Frick yesterday. Mr. Frick would not state what he had paid for the painting, but it is rumored, however, that it cost him more than $140,000.