The paintings , dispatched to safety by the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna , were under a recent court order to be returned to Maria Altmann , the 89-year-old Californian who is the niece and heir of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer , an Austrian industrialist whose possessions were expropriated by the Nazis .
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