Impromptu Marcel Duchamp could not be more different than Brancusi (below), the exquisitely laborious artisan. Duchamp took several of his most formative cues from Picasso, one of which was the transformation of the "objet trouvé" through the triple sanctifications of name, context and humeur (to which one must add, in the case of Duchamp, swaddling nihilism) into art. Yet even though the hat rack is "readymade," it is closer to the smoothed, reductive elegance of a Brancusi "painstakingly-made," than anything I can think of by Picasso.
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