From 1900-1902 Pollones was a pupil of J.P. Veth and F. Hart Nibbrig at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. Afterwards he lived abroad in Paris, Rome and Madrid. He was a friend of Leo Gestel who, after his stay in Mallorca in 1914, worked for some time in Pollones' and Piet van der Hem's studio in Madrid.
His bright portraits show a clear modernist approach.

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