A painting by the British graffiti master Banksy will appear at the Louisiana State Museum at the Presbytère starting Aug. 29, marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the resultant flood, museum officials announced Monday.

The painting will be displayed on the 5,000-pound section of brick wall where it was painted.

Banksy, the most famous artist of the 21st century, paid a clandestine visit to New Orleans in 2008, when he painted more than a dozen small murals at unexpected sites across the city. The intention of the secretive artist was apparently to boost morale and attract art-loving visitors to the city as it slogged through its long recovery.

Many of Banksy’s murals had Katrina themes. But the painting on the side of a former firehouse in the 500 block of Jackson Av

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