Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston gets the distinction of being the only museum in New England to house a painting by Frida Kahlo as it announced its purchase of the artist's early portrait on Tuesday, per Boston Globe.

According to the news outlet, the rare early painting is entitled "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" and was believed to be the first artwork the Mexican artist sold. Created by Kahlo in 1928, the painting showed two housemaids who are said to have worked in her mother's residence.

Erica Hirshler, MFA senior curator of American paintings, likened Kahlo's work to Renaissance art, praising the artist's approach to females.

"She takes these working women, and she turns them into Madonnas," Hirshler pointed out. "I love the idea that she was taking this idea from art history and using it to make these modern, obviously native Mexican women heroic. For me it really fulfills one of the things Kahlo is best known for: her celebration of Mexican folklore and identity."

Elliot Bostwick Davis, chair of the Art of the Americas wing at the MFA, revealed that the museum is still trying to find out more about the identities of the women portrayed in the painting, according to a report from Fox News.

"This painting was made when Kahlo was 21 ... soon after her accident, so she is still a young, new painter," Davis explained. "It's a very special painting, because she is portraying these women who worked in her house."

Another reason why the acquisition of "Dos Mujeres" is such a milestone is because Kahlo's artwork is still very rare outside of Mexico, and this particular painting has only been viewed publicly twice. Until this purchase, it was kept by the family of American industrialist and Kahlo's friend Jackson Cole Phillips, who brought the portrait from the artist in 1929. Now, it is only one of 12 paintings by Kahlo in U.S. museums.

The opposite side of the canvas includes inscriptions by Kahlo, Phillips, Kahlo's sister Cristina Kahlo, and her future husband and Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. There is one signature that the MFA has not identified yet, but the team is continuing with the process of finding out whose it is.

"Dos Mujeres" can be viewed in MFA's Carol Vance Wall Rotunda on Jan. 27 to March 1. Afterwards, it will go through conservation and then installed permanently in the Art of the Americas wing.