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César Baldaccini's bizarre artwork, Le Pouce, or The Thumb, is a shining bronze sculpture that protrudes from the pavement in the Souq Waqif marketplace. It was put up in 2019 to commemorate the country's Asia Cup football victory. With its thumbprint's ridges and furrows, wrinkles, reflecting nail, and slightly uneven cuticle, the sculpture is a scaled-up representation of the artist's own thumb that seems quite lifelike. Many of these thumb sculptures in various sizes were made by the French artist starting in 1965. They can be found all over the planet. One of the biggest, at 40 feet (12 meters).