Four Holocaust-era looted paintings will be auctioned by Christie’s this fall. The Gustav Klimt paintings from the Bloch-Bauer collection had hung at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna until January, when an arbitration court ordered them returned to Maria Altmann, the niece of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer.
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