Behjat Sadr (Persian: بهجت صدر; 29 May 1924 – 10 August 2009) was an Iranian modern art painter whose works have been exhibited in New York, Paris, and Rome.

[1] In her paintings, Sadr is known for using a palette knife on canvases or metallic surfaces to create visual rhythm, movement and geometric shapes.

She had participated a year before at the twenty-eighth Venice Biennale in 1956 and won the second prize of San Vito Romano.

During her years in Rome, her friendship deepened during with the Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad, who had been her student in Tehran.

In 1957, Sadr decided to return to the University of Tehran as a professor, despite opportunities to continue her painting in Rome and Paris.