Behjat Sadr (Arak, 1924–Corsica, 2009) studied painting at the University of Tehran and, in 1955, moved to Italy, where she developed a personal approach to non-geometric abstraction. In 1959, she became a professor at the University of Tehran and began producing more gestural painting. During sabbatical years in Paris, she started working with metal. After the Iranian Revolution (1979), she went into exile in Paris, while continuing to visit Iran regularly. No longer able to work in large formats, she turned to photo-paintings and gradually focused on writing, photography, and drawing. She participated in editions of both the Venice Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo. Her work has been featured in recent exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2014), MAXXI (Rome, 2015), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2021), and Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles (2023).

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