Star Wars Galaxy #12 "Princess Leia" Magazine Cover (1997)-Dave DeVries

This painting first became available to me back in 1997 through Four Color Images, an art gallery in New York, but I wasn't able to afford it at the time. When I was ready to pull the trigger on this piece a few months later, the painting was no longer available. It had gone to Lucasfilm.

Supposedly while visiting Skywalker Ranch, Carrie Fisher saw this painting displayed on the wall and just fell in love with it. Knowing this, George Lucas gave it to Ms. Fisher as a present on her birthday. Lucas wrote a birthday greeting and signed the backside of the frame. Mark Hamill also signed and wrote a greeting. The painting hung in Ms. Fisher’s home until she decided to auction it off to raise money for her mother, Debbie Reynolds who was trying to establish a Hollywood Motion Picture Museum in 2001. Ms. Fisher added her signature on the back of the painting for the special auction. I didn't want to miss my second chance, so I jumped on it.