This is the horrifying moment female architect Basak Cengiz, 27, was hacked to death in the street in Istanbul but a stranger who 'wanted to kill a woman' +9 This is the horrifying moment female architect Basak Cengiz, 27, was hacked to death in the street in Istanbul but a stranger who 'wanted to kill a woman' The suspect appears to inflict several wounds on the 27-year-old as she tries to roll away before he flees the scene as passing cars stop to help +9 The suspect appears to inflict several wounds on the 27-year-old as she tries to roll away before he flees the scene as passing cars stop to help The suspect, identified by police as Can Goktug Boz, can be seen grabbing Cengiz from behind and making a stabbing motion as she collapses +9 The suspect, identified by police as Can Goktug Boz, can be seen grabbing Cengiz from behind and making a stabbing motion as she collapses The suspect, identified by police as Can Goktug Boz, (not pictured) tailed Basak Cengiz, 27, (right) on November 9 after seeing her walk past his apartment block on her way home from work several times, police said +9 The suspect, identified by police as Can Goktug Boz, (not pictured) tailed Basak Cengiz, 27, (right) on November 9 after seeing her walk past his apartment block on her way home from work several times, police said Cengiz, who was engaged and soon due to be married, was rushed to a private hospital in Atasehir district of Istanbul in a critical condition but was later declared dead. The 27-year-old usually lives in the Turkish capital Ankara but was visiting Istanbul for a work assignment. She did not know the suspect. On the day of the incident, she was due to catch a work shuttle to a hotel she was staying at with her colleagues but had decided to walk back after staying late at the office. The suspect, police said, tailed Cengiz before the fatal attack on November 9 after seeing her walk past his apartment block on her way home from work several times +9 The suspect, police said, tailed Cengiz before the fatal attack on November 9 after seeing her walk past his apartment block on her way home from work several times The samurai sword can be seen glinting in the streetlights in the grainy footage moments before the suspect flees the scene +9 The samurai sword can be seen glinting in the streetlights in the grainy footage moments before the suspect flees the scene Footage shows the suspect (centre) walk away from the scene as passing cars and bystanders rush to help the victim +9 Footage shows the suspect (centre) walk away from the scene as passing cars and bystanders rush to help the victim RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 2 Next Lukashenko's 'weaponised migrants' cheer as they smash... US AND Russia enter Europe's border battle: America warns it... Eco-mob targets Glasgow gas-guzzlers: Fury as 'idiot'... SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Police arrested Boz in his apartment in Atasehir district of Istanbul after reviewing footage from the apartment block's security cameras. Officers from the Atasehir Public Security Bureau raided the residence and arrested the suspect. Police recovered the samurai sword at the address where they also found phrases such as 'stab them in the stomach', 'set a trap', and 'kill those who argue' written on the walls. Police recovered the samurai sword (pictured) at the address where they also found phrases such as 'stab them in the stomach', 'set a trap', and 'kill those who argue' written on the walls +9 Police recovered the samurai sword (pictured) at the address where they also found phrases such as 'stab them in the stomach', 'set a trap', and 'kill those who argue' written on the walls Cengiz, (pictured with her fiancee) who was engaged and soon due to be married, was rushed to a private hospital in Atasehir district of Istanbul in a critical condition but was later declared dead +9 Cengiz, (pictured with her fiancee) who was engaged and soon due to be married, was rushed to a private hospital in Atasehir district of Istanbul in a critical condition but was later declared dead Boz was later taken to the Gayrettepe Public Security Branch for questioning, where he was reported as being 'mentally unstable'. During his first interrogation, officers reportedly asked him: 'Why did you commit this murder?' To which he reportedly replied: 'I was influenced by the films I watched'. The suspect remains in custody as the investigation continues.
A Vincent van Gogh landscape seized by the Nazis from the Rothschild family during the Second World War occupation of France has sold at auction in New York for $35.9 million, a record for a watercolor by the Dutch impressionist.
The 1888 work, 'Mueles de ble', was purchased by an undisclosed buyer for well above its pre-sale estimate of $20-30 million, auction house Christie's said. It was last exhibited in 1905 in Amsterdam.
'Mueles de ble' (Wheat stacks) by the Dutch master depicts a rural farming scene in Arles, France, where van Gogh lived for more than a year in the 1880s.
The painting shows farmers harvesting wheat in a Provençal farmyard, with tall stacks of golden hay and a a cluster of farmhouses set against a bright blue sky.
Unlike Van Gogh's best-known work, which were painted with oils, the painting was executed in watercolor, gouache, pen and ink on paper.
The painting formed part of the Cox collection with two other works in oil by the artist, which fetched $71million and $46million.
Pictured: 'Meules de blé' by Vincent van Gogh on display during the 'The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism' auction at Christies on October 29, 2021 in New York. The painting by the Dutch master has sold for $35.9 million dollars
Pictured: Art handlers hold (L-R) 'Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès' and 'Meules de blé' by Vincent van Gogh, at Christie's in London, one of the highlights of their forthcoming Cox Collection sale. Picture date: Monday October 18, 2021
The work was initially owned after the artist's suicide at 37 by his brother, Theo van Gogh, and was bought by German collector and industrialist Max Meirowsky in 1913.
Meirowsky had a wide collection of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism works, including Van Gogh's Portrait of Camille Roulin (1888), that can now be found in the Museo de Arte, São Paulo.
When the Jewish collector sought refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam, he gave the work to Paul Graupe, a German art dealer in Paris for safe keeping.
In 1938, he sold it as the persecution of Jews began to escalate in the country, and by 1940 it was in the possession of Alexandrine de Rothschild, a member of the French branch of the wealthy Jewish banking family.
She was also an admirer of Van Gogh's, and owned House with Sunflowers (1887) that is now in another private collection.
However, it was soon confiscated by the Germans in 1940 during the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War, with Alexandrine de Rothschild fleeing to Switzerland.
A painting by Vincent Van Gogh entitled 'Mueles de ble' (left) is displayed at Christie's auction house in New York on October 29, 2021
Alexandrine de Rothschild (pictured left) and Edwin Lochridge Cox (right) have both owned the Van Gogh painting. It was confiscated from Rothschild by the Nazis in Paris, after which its whereabouts were largely uknown until it was acquired by Cox
Wheatstacks remained in Paris after the German occupation, and in 1941 was held at the Jeu de Paume, where looted art was collected by the Nazis, before being transported to Austria which had been taken by Germany.
After the war, De Rothschild tried unsuccessfully to recover the painting.
Following the war, the painting's whereabouts was unclear until the 1970s when it resurfaced as the property of oil tycoon Edwin Lochridge Cox, who bought it from the Wildsenstein Gallery in New York late in the decade.
Cox hung the painting in the drawing room of his mansion in Dallas. His ownership of the painting was kept a secret to everyone but his closest friends until his death last year, according to The Art Newspaper.
Christie's purchased the work through a settlement with the collector and heirs of Meirowsky and Rothschild, allowing it to be sold, but not after a legal settlement.
Meirowsky’s heir claimed that Wheatstacks had been subject to a 'forced sale' in 1938, while the heirs of De Rothschild argued it had been looted by Nazi occupiers three years later. The parties ultimately agreed on a settlement.
One of the features of Mueles de ble, the Mas de Griffeuille farmhouse seen in the top-left behind the hay stack, can still be found mostly intact in Arles today.
It is found in the eastern suburbs of the town in amongst more modern apartment blocks.
One of the features of Mueles de ble, the Mas de Griffeuille farmhouse seen in the top-left behind the hay stack, can still be found mostly intact in Arles today (pictured, file photo)
Pictured: One of Van Gogh's self-portraits, from 1890
Mueles de ble becomes the most expensive Van Gogh watercolor to ever be auctioned, after an earlier watercolor by the artists sold for almost $17million.
However, it is far from being the most expensive Van Gogh painting ever sold. His Portrait du Dr. Gachet (1890) sold for around $81.5million in 1990.
Two other of the master painter's pieces were sold at the same Christie's auction, with Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès (Wooden huts among olive trees and cypress trees) selling for $71 million euros ($81 million).
All three paintings date from 1888 to 1890,
In total, Christie's raised $332,031,500 from the Cox collection auction - well above the estimated $228million. The collection also included works by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Van Gogh is considered one of art's greatest and most influential painters, although he saw little commercial success during his lifetime.
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