This meticulous hand-colored photograph of a cliff overlooking Ocean Beach at San Francisco Bay probably dates to the early 1930’s.

Print details:

mount recto: Blumann called this a “Pastelograph”-simply a hand-colored black and white photograph. It is signed in graphite at lower right corner of impression: Sigismund Blumann

mount verso: signed in graphite, presumably in author’s hand: Ocean Beach: San Francisco.

Sigismund Blumann: 1872-1956

provenance: author’s grandson