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Police reports estimated the missing artworks were worth €6m.

On Wednesday morning the Kunsthal reopened with replacement paintings from the Triton Foundation, but there is a murky journey ahead as it attempts to reclaim the missing artworks.

Valery Kulishov, Russia's restitution director, pledged his country's assistance in obtaining restitution for individual victims, and turned over three secret documents bearing on stolen or missing artworks.

He said he suspected there were more of his family's missing artworks involved, and said the motivation for his lawsuit was basic: "People are lying, and we want to find the truth".

The Philippines plans to launch a website next month to crowdsource tips on the whereabouts of about 200 missing artworks that were owned by the former first lady, Imelda Marcos, including paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Rembrandt.

Rocky II is so mysterious it neither appears on the call for information about missing artworks listed on the artist's website, nor in the catalogue listing all his known works – almost as if its existence has been intentionally obscured.

But soon, the story of the missing artwork was all over the papers, and his wife figured it out first.

They refused to elaborate, saying only that the investigation was now focused on recovering the missing artwork.

Still, he has been calling pawnshops, antiques stores, stained glass studios and salvage lots, asking them to watch for the missing artwork.

It was not until 2010, he said, that he accidentally learned from an organization that searches for missing artwork, that the piece was wanted by Poland.

If, as defense lawyers asserted, Triton has claimed on its insurance and surrendered any future rights over the missing artwork, that would suggest it does not expect the art to be found soon, or perhaps ever.