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Marcela Cordescu is a Romanian graphic artist (born 10 May 1913, Constanta - died 1984). She was married to Vladimir Colin, one of the most important fantasy and science fiction authors in Romanian literature. She has illustrated some of his books in Basmele omului, Legendele tării lui Vam and Povesti de buzunar.
Her twin sister was the illustrator and painter Florica Cordescu The twins were remarkable for both their outstanding talent and the chemistry they exercised on their fellow artists.
Starting with 1929 she had participated in national and international exhibitions: 1959 - Riga, 1960 - Athens, 1961 - Wien, Alexandria, Cairo, Damasc, Prague, 1963 - Rome, 1968 - Frankfurt, 1970 - Warsaw, 1971 - Berlin.
She did drawing and engraving works in different techniques and especially in book illustration, manifesting in all circumstances a special vocation for the grotesque fable in which the absurd of realist type associates in harmony with the social and psychological moralizing intentions of expressionist coloring.
