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Art collector blue over frame ‘flub’

You get what you pay for.

A Yonkers art collector took a $1 million masterpiece to get framed at a chain store best known for stickers and scrapbooks — and got angry when they botched the job.

Retired doctor Shahid Malik, who describes himself as an experienced collector, claims he had nowhere else to go except to the arts-and-crafts box store Michaels when he needed a frame for a prized painting by F.N. Souza, the “Picasso of India.”

Malik claims he had wealthy buyers, and Christie’s auction house, lined up to see the untitled piece but was stuck when the framers he usually worked with went out of business.

The only option left, he claims, was Michaels, the chain that sells everything from pretty paper and glue to candles and bakeware, along with frames.

But the Michaels store in Queens took six months to finish what should have been a two-week job — scuttling his potential sale, Malik charges in a Brooklyn federal court lawsuit.

Malik says his name is now mud in the art world, and he wants a Brooklyn federal court judge to award him more than $250,000 in damages.