European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Alan Riding a people ask me Why Don t you leave it that Way for larger projects the Canvas is painted in sections the new York times which is Nice of them Quot she said. It on the floor with ladders and even scaffolding listed to. In reality after the Canvas makes Way for the. Provide viewing positions that will help ensure Cor red even those who already consider Paris something of original in june it will be stored perhaps never to be . A stage set Are doing a double take in front of the seen again. Quot but the important thing about this smaller projects like Fresco Are painted on. Church of the Madeleine these Day transitory form of Art Quot Jeff said Quot is that for a while at canvases hanging on Walls although miniatures an while being cleaned and repaired the building has least it is very much . / /. Always created first. A been covered by a huge Canvas painted to depict the it was in fact that Champion of happenings the with a turnover of $2 million last year including very facade that is hidden. Bulgarian born artist Christo who inspired Jeff to $100,000 earned from the Madeleine Jeff s company. From nearby  strokes give it the. Leave her Job As a Magazine Illustrator when he now has a huge Quot portfolio Quot of completed works appearance of an abstract painting. But from afar the wrapped a Sand coloured fabric around the Pont neuf. Some Are still alive As murals and Fresco but most. 19th Century Church seems both reassuringly familiar in Paris in 1983. Quot i thought if he can find someone to painted canvases survive Only in photographs and in and strangely unreal much brighter Rosier and pay for this so can Quot she recalled memories a a magical than the original As it glows in the Spring the City government was already sponsoring murals a few have been trompe i Oil reproductions of Sunshine. A a a. To brighten up Quot dead Quot Walls in Paris and the artist still facades although one Canvas was painted to look As if since it was installed in late december the troth be creates murals for the City. But her painted canvases it had been peeled Back to show the Interior of the. I Oil created by a French artist Catherine Jeff has a accounting for half her work a Are. Usually. Building. Won a following of its own tourists who look on it As a commissioned by companies constructing or some have been simply decorative. When the arc new Paris attraction and locals who have come to. Renovating buildings. The City though must approve Detriomphe was being cleaned in 1988/for example regard the Madeleine More As a subway station than Ever design. Jeff draped it in Nylon painted to resemble a huge As a Church. V. A. Quot you have to remember that people Are very French Flag. Perhaps the most dramatic View of the painting is sensitive about what happens to Paris a Jeff 36, one of the artist s strangest creations was a huge from the place de la concorde because from there noted. Quot i d like to be More humorous More like the old fashioned wireless constructed for the place de la the Eye is automatically drawn along the Rue Royale murals in the United states. But people Are More. Concorde last june to Mark the 50th anniversary of toward . Solemn Here. We have to be  general Charles de Gaulle s radio broadcast from Quot at night you can be fooled into thinking it s real quo More daring was her decision to approach her Art As London just Days after France was occupied by nazi said one local  business risking the Wrath of Painter friends who Germany in which he promised to fight on. For one a Salesman in a boutique facing the 1.5,000-Square considered her a sellout to capitalism. Quot the Bohemian week the Quot wireless Quot broadcast speeches by de foot trompe of also approved saying Quot personally i tradition of the solitary artist dates Back Only to the last Gaulle. Love it. It s better than looking at scaffolding it s. Century Quot she said. Quot before that painters always. Now Jeff is looking Abr red almost better than the original. They should do this to worked on commission. She has worked in Switzerland and thievery Monument they  but she needed to form a company she explained. Netherlands and her eyes Are fixed on the United Jeff is understandably delighted by the response. Because she alone could not do the work of states. She keeps a Booko american muralist by she has been creating murals Fresco and trompe translating a Small Quot Model Quot painting onto a huge her desk and she Speaks admiringly of the murals of i Oil works since 1986, but nowhere has she Canvas or Wall a sometimes As with the Madeleine the american artist Richard Haas. Quot they re not doing transformed the Urban landscape More than at the enlarging the same image 500-fold. So she now has huge outdoor painted canvases in the United states Madeleine. V 20 Young painters on her payroll to do that work. Yet Quot she said. Quot that s my next. Ambition Quot f